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OPTIONAL 

ORTUNiTieS 

IN CHICAGO 




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EDUCATIONAL 

OPPORTUNITIES IN 

CHICAGO 



A SUMMARY PREPARED BY 

THE COUNCIL FOR LIBRARY AND 
MUSEUM EXTENSION 



CHICAGO, JUNE 1911 






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FOREWORD 

In the fall of 19 lo representatives from a number of the 
larger educational agencies of the city of Chicago met with rep- 
resentatives of the Chicago Association of Commerce to devise 
means of increasing the efficiency of the educational work in 
the city. It was recognized that in the city of Chicago there 
are many libraries, museums, colleges, and other institutions 
of learning founded for the use of the people, which might 
considerably enlarge the utility of their public service. To 
develop these opportunities a central board was established, 
known as The Council for Library and Museum Extension. 

The institutions now composing the Council are: 
The Board of Education The Chicago Historical 

The Art Institute Society 

The Chicago Public Library The South Park Commission 
The John Crerar Library Lewis Institute 

The Field Museum of Natural The City Club 

History The Women's City Club 

The Chicago Academy of The Chicago School of Civics 

Sciences and Philanthropy 

The University of Chicago Hull House 

Northwestern University Abraham Lincoln Centre 

The work of the Council is outlined along two lines: 
publicity and co-ordination. Firstly, it is realized that the 
educational activities of the city must be called to the atten- 
tion of the public more clearly. A centrally directed cam- 
paign of publicity has been planned to arouse the interest 
of the public in the educational opportunities freely offered 
at its very doors. The second task proposed lies in the co- 
ordination of the educational work of the city. It is believed 
that some work is unnecessarily duplicated; that many 
fields, worthy of attention, remain undeveloped, and that 
certain lines of work can be generally increased in efficiency. 
A general supervisory body is needed to conserve the city's 

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educational energy and to give to it direction into tn j channels 
of greatest opportunity and most pressing need. It is hoped 
that the Council may develop into such a federation of the 
city's educational forces. 

This booklet is the first published result of the work of the 
Council and is intended to give publicity to Chicago's educa- 
tional system. It has been expressed as an attempt "to take 
stock" of Chicago's educational resources. The Association 
of Commerce has lent its support liberally to this venture. 
The attempt has been made especially to catalogue educa- 
tional opportunities which are available to the public without 
pursuing an extended course of study: in other words, oppor- 
tunities for self-culture that may be realized by the bread- 
winners of the city. 

Inquiries should be addressed to the President or Sec- 
retary of the Council for Library and Museum Extension. 
N. H. Carpenter, President 
The Art Institute 

A. G. S. JosEPHSON, Secretary 
The John Crerar Library 

The Editorial Committee: 

George H. Mead, Chairman 
The University of Chicago 

Oliver C. Farrington 

The Field Museum of Natural History 

Henry E. Legler 

The Chicago Public Library 

Carl O. Sauer, Secretary 



CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS 

President Board of Education: J. B. McFatrich 
Superintendent: Mrs. Ella Flagg Young" 

(A list of the public schools, with location, may be found 
in the Chicago City Directory, p. i8.) 

There are i8 high schools, 272 elementary schools, a 
teachers' college for training of teachers, and several schools 
for special purposes. The membership for March, 191 1, was 
as follows: 

Teachers' College 588 

High Schools 1 7,336 

Elementary Schools 222,006 

Kindergartens 11,513 

Miscellaneous classes and special 

schools 694 

Total 252,137 

teachers' college 
The Chicago Teachers' College, located at Sixty-eighth 
Street and Stewart Avenue, and three elementary schools, 
used as practice schools, together constitute the Chicago 
Normal School, for the training of teachers. There are 
courses of two years each for the training of regular elementary 
teachers, kindergarten teachers, and teachers of manual 
training. There are also special courses for training of 
teachers of the deaf, of cooking, and of sewing. Graduates 
are granted certificates to teach in the public schools of 
Chicago. 

HIGH SCHOOLS 

Courses of study. — The general four-year high-school 
courses of study are so arranged that the students may pre- 
pare for entrance to colleges and universities, for entrance to 
the Chicago Teachers' College, for entrance to the higher 

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technical schools, medical colleges, and law schools. The 
technical high-school four-year courses fit the students for 
entrance to engineering courses of the higher technical schools, 
or lay the foundation for skilled workmanship in the mechani- 
cal trades. Two-year vocational courses have been estab- 
lished in Accounting, Stenography, Mechanical Drawing, 
Design, Carpentry, Pattern-Making, Machine-Shop Work, 
Electricity, and Household Arts. These may be taken in 
any of the high schools. The Mechanic Arts High School 
for Girls will ofifer courses in vocational work suitable for 
women. All of the high schools have gymnasiums in charge 
of special teachers of physical education. They also have 
lunchrooms for the use of pupils and teachers. 

ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS 

Course of instruction. — The elementary-school instruction 
aims to teach children to read and write, to use the English 
language in a creditable manner suited to their years and 
attainments, and to make accurately the arithmetical com- 
putations that modern life requires of the average citizen. 
The course also introduces the children to the best literature 
of the language suited to their years, as well as to geography, 
history of the United States, civics, and elementary science, 
including physiology and hygiene. Throughout the course 
the children are learning to sing and to draw, and their 
bodily welfare is enhanced by exercises, games, plays, 
and other recreational activities, under direction of the 
teachers. 

Industrial arts. — In addition to the usual school instruc- 
tion, as above outlined, the pupils of all the grades, including 
the kindergarten, have an opportunity to engage in hand- 
work of various kinds involving elementary processes, as in 
book-binding, box-making, cookery, needle-work, woodwork, 
etc. The purpose of this work is to familiarize all the children 
with the elementary processes in industrial work, to give them 
a knowledge of materials, and to develop taste by the applica- 
tion of art to the simple projects which they undertake. 

Schools for the deaf. — Classes for deaf children are main- 
tained in II pubhc schools. In March, 191 1, 238 pupils 
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were in attendance, in charge of about 30 teachers. The 
oral method is used. 

Schools for the blind. — Classes for blind children are main- 
tained in four school buildings. In March, 191 1, there were 
40 pupils in charge of 5 teachers. All of the textbooks 
for the blind pupils are printed at one of the schools (the 
Felsenthal) by a teacher employed for that work. The 
Board pays the carfare of the pupils to and from school, and 
the fare of one person to accompany each pupil when necessary. 

Schools for crippled children. — Two schools are maintained 
for crippled children, who are transported to and from school 
in busses, at the expense of the Board. In March, 191 1, there 
were 127 pupils in charge of 8 teachers. 

Classes for subnormal children. — Classes for subnormal 
children are maintained in 20 schools. About 400 pupils are 
in attendance. 

Open-air schools. — The Board furnishes 2 teachers for 
two open-air schools, established by the Bureau of Charities, 
and maintains 10 other open-air and low-temperature rooms 
in the public schools. 

The Parental School. — The Parental School, at St. Louis 
and Berwyn avenues, has in charge 317 truant boys committed 
to the school by the Juvenile Court. They are in charge of 
10 teachers and 16 family instructors. 

John Worthy School. — The youthful prisoners in the House 
of Correction are taught by 5 teachers in the employ of the 
Board of Education. In March, 191 1, there were 147 pupils 
in attendance. 

Other classes for delinquents and dependents. — The Board 
supplies teachers for the children in the Juvenile Detention 
Home, the Frances Juvenile Home for Girls, and the Chicago 
Refuge for Girls. 

EVENING SCHOOLS 

Thirty-three evening schools were supported in 1910-11, 
for a period of 75 evenings, with a total enrolment of 25,992, 
and an average nightly attendance of 13,496. 

Choice of work. — 2,057 girls studied cooking, sewing, and 
millinery; 2,972 persons took shorthand, typewriting, and 
bookkeeping, and 3,678 studied subjects related to the 



industries (mechanical drawing, machine-shop work, elec- 
tricity, chsmistry, practical millinery, etc.), while about 
4,000 took regular high-school and elementary-school studies. 
The number of foreign-born people learning the English 
language was 12,715, of 43 different nationalities. 

APPRENTICE SCHOOLS 

Under an agreement between the Carpenters' and Builders* 
Association and the union carpenters employed by the mem- 
bers of the Association, the carpenters' apprentices attend the 
public school for three months each year (January, February, 
and March). In 191 1, 260 apprentices were enrolled in two 
schools. The course of study includes architectural drawing, 
plan reading and estimating, English, United States history, 
and mathematics. 

VACATION SCHOOLS 

Chicago has 17 regular vacation schools that are main- 
tained for six weeks during the summer months for the 
benefit of children in the congested portions of the city. 
The enrolment in these schools for the summer of 19 10 was 
more than 13,000, 373 principals, teachers, and assistants 
were employed in this work. The work done is of a kind 
to involve the physical activities of the children — games, 
gymnastics, school gardens, nature-study, singing, drawing, 
cooking, sewing, manual training, and a great variety of hand- 
work. There are also weekly excursions to the country, 
the parks, etc. 

SOCIAL CENTERS 

A plan for the maintenance of Social Centers at public- 
school buildings during evening hours was launched in Decem- 
ber, 19 10. These recreational centers, nine in number, are 
open for two evenings of the week until near the middle of 
April. The attendance is drawn largely from young people 
who work during the day in stores, shops, and factories. 
Among the features that are incorporated in this work are 
singing, dramatics, gymnastic work, debating, orchestra 
organizations, library and reading-room facilities, and social 
dancing. Moving pictures illustrating educational and 
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recreational topics have been introduced for the first time 
in the schools. 

SCHOOL LIBRARIES 

The total number of books in the libraries of the public 
ichools is 161,170. These are apportioned as follows: 

Teachers' College 18,150 

High Schools 32,769 

Elementary Schools 110,251 

Most of these books are accessible to the pupils of the several 
schools, may be taken home for reading, and are thus access- 
ible to the other members of the pupil's family. Of the 
110,251 books in the elementary schools, 24,517 are in class- 
room libraries, which means that sets of books suitable for 
the several grades have been apportioned to the rooms, 
and remain in the classrooms, rather than in the general 
library of the school. By arrangement with the Public 
Library Board the principals may take out collections of books 
known as "School Deposit Libraries," which may be kept 
at the school six weeks. Individual teachers may also take 
out collections for their rooms. 

SCHOOL ASSEMBLY HALLS 

There are 17 assembly halls in the high schools and 187 
in the elementary schools. These are opened, free of charge, 
for certain meetings having a direct relation to the school 
life, and may be opened for other educational meetings upon 
payment of a fixed charge to cover cost of heat, light, and 
service. The meetings permitted free of charge are: (i) 
Meetings of teachers for educational purposes; (2) Annual 
graduation exercises; (3) One alumni meeting each month; 
(4) Meetings of students of the school for musical or literary 
exercises, such meetings to be open only to members of the 
school; (5) Lectures of the William H. Ryder fund; (6) The 
three entertainments per year authorized in each school; 
(7) Two meetings per year of teachers and parents in each 
school district. 

• No fee may be charged for admission to any meeting 
except the three school entertainments. 

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THE CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY 

SYSTEM. A LIBRARY FOR 

THE PEOPLE 

President: Robert J. Roulston 
Secretary: Harry G. Wilson 
Librarian: Henry E. Legler 

The Chicago Public Library is a public institution, main- 
tained by the city as a part of the public educational system. 
There are nearly half a million volumes in the central library 
and its eighteen branches in various parts of the city, and all 
but a few thousand of these may be drawn for home use by 
the patrons who have secured cards for the purpose. 

The right of drawing books from the Public Library 
belongs to all who reside in the city of Chicago, and also to 
those who make their homes in the suburbs, within the limits 
of Cook County, and are regularly employed in the city. In 
order to become a book-borrower, it is necessary only to file 
an application giving the name and residence of the applicant, 
and bearing the signature of a second person, whose name 
appears in the latest city directory. This person becomes 
the guarantor to the Library for the proper observance of 
the library regulations on the part of the applicant. 

The cards entitle the book -borrower to draw two books, 
which may be retained for two weeks, and may be renewed for 
the same period. The cards remain in effect for three years 
from the date of registration, at the expiration of which 
term a new application must be filed. Books may be drawn 
or returned at any circulating center. 

Branches. — For the convenience of the public, collections 
smaller than those at the main building, but representative 
of the various classes of books to be found there, are kept in 
branch libraries located in various sections of the city. These 
now number eighteen, and are as follows: 

(Open from i to 9 p.m. — Blackstone, Lewis Institute, and 
Lincoln Centre open forenoons also.) 



Blackstone, 49th St. and Lake Ave. 

Hiram Kelly, Normal Blvd. and 6 2d St. 

Lewis Institute, 1943 W. Madison St. 

Austin, 5642 Lake St. 

Burr School, Ashland and Wabansia Aves. 

Lincoln Centre, Oakwood Blvd. and Langley Ave. 

Lawndale, Millard Ave. and 23d St. 

26th Street, 3347 W. 26th St. 

West Park i, Chicago Ave. and Noble St. 

West Park 2, 14th PI. and Union St. 

Sherman Park, Loomis and W. 53d Sts. 




THE CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY— CENTRAL BUILDING 
Michigan Avenue, between Washington and Randolph Streets 

Cornell Square, Wood and W. 51st Sts. 
Mark White Square, Halsted and 30th Sts. 
Hebrew Institute, Taylor and Lytle Sts. 
Logan Square, 3125 Logan Blvd. 
Seward Park, Elm and Orleans Sts. 
Geo. C. Walker Branch, Morgan Park. 
Hamlin Park, Barry and Hoyne Sts. 

The library also has about 90 delivery stations in various parts of the 
city, connected by daily automobile service with the central library. 



Resources at the Central Building.- 
volumes, which may be freely used. 
classified as follows: 

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-Here there are 450,000 
They may be broadly 



liislory, bio^rapliy, and Iravcls 56,000 

l-'ine and practical arts, and sciences.. . 48,000 

l\)ctry, drama, essays 15,300 

Menial and moral science, religion. . . . 15,500 

Lanj^auiKc, literature, bibliography 20,500 

Political and .social science 15,000 

Dictionaries and encyclopedias 7,000 

Periodicals and newspapers 49,000 

Government and state publications. . . 26,000 

Enj^lish prcse fiction and juvenile 130,000 

liooks in foreign languages S9,ooo 

Hooks for the blind 1,200 

Most of the books in the above clas.scs may be drawn for 
home use; reference books and those which for special 
reasons do not circulate may be consulted in the various 
reference rooms of the library. 

Rcading-Room. — In the Reading-Room, 1,500 periodicals 
and serials are currently received, and may be used by any 
person of good deportment and habits. 

Open Shelves. — That part of the Delivery Room on the 
third door of the Public Library known as the Open-Shelf 
Room contains about 10,000 volumes. These arc selected 
from the general library, and duplicated there. The collec- 
tion is intended for the use of those who want something to 
read, but are uncertain what to choose; or for those who wish 
to look at several books on a subject before deciding about 
those they wish to draw for home use. 

Reference Department. — The Reference Department is 
designed to serve and assist readers who may come to pursue 
their studies within the library building. No card or guar- 
atUy of any sort is required, the only condition being that 
books shall not be taken from the room. All books that 
circulate for home use may be used here, and in addition many 
thousands of volumes not adapted to general circulation, 
by reason of their size, their costliness, or their rarity, are at 
the free disposal of the patrons of this department, A stafif of 
trained assistants is ready to lend aid, whether wants involve 
the selection of a course of reading, the preparation of an 
essay or a thesis for the school, the study-class, or the club, or 
merely the answer to a single question, the source of a quota- 
tion, or the portrait of a celebrity. 
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On the open shelves which h'ne the entire west wall of the 
Reference Room the reader will find, freely at his disposal, 
about 2,000 volumes of reference books, comprising the stand- 
ard dictionaries and handbooks in all departments of knowl- 
edge, general encyclopedias in English, French, German, 
Spanish, Scandinavian, and Bohemian, dictionaries of the 
classical and of all the modern languages, guides to history, 
literature, science, art, and religion, biographical dictionaries, 
directories of the principal cities, and many other works 
of general information. 




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The Art Room. — This room, auxiliary to the Reference 
Department, contains not solely books on "art," but also 
elaborately illustrated works, editions de luxe, and all books 
that by reason of their rarity or their beauty require closer 
supervision in their use than is exacted in other departments 
of the Library. Here are portfolios of beautiful engravings, 
and copies of the treasures of the world's great galleries. 

The Young People's Rooms. — The Thomas Hughes Read- 
ing-Room for Young People is conducted as a reading-room 
adjacent to the adult Reference Room on the fourth floor. 
It is administered by a special staff, and equipped with a 

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carefully chosen collection of books. This room is planned 
to meet the demands and the desires of the juvenile patrons of 
the main Library; to offer aid and counsel in the preparation 
of school -work, essays, and debates; to direct and attract their 
tastes toward wholesome and sane channels; and, perhaps 
incidentally, to provide a pleasant and inviting retreat for the 
scant leisure of the great army of juvenile bread-winners 
employed within the radius of a mile from the Library. 




THE CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY— DELIVERY ROOM 

In the small hall adjoining, occasional illustrated lectures, 
talks, and readings are given, and reference is made to the 
available literature of the subjects treated, by way of teaching 
the use and value of books in daily life. 

Oral story-telling, a method of interesting children which 
has been adopted with great success by libraries, is employed 
freely in the numerous branch reading-rooms established 
in the residence districts. 

Patents and Documents Department. — The contents of this 
department, as its name implies, include the reports of patents 

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granted for inventions in the United States since 1790, in 
Great Britain since 161 7, in Germany since the foundation of 
the empire, in France since the time of Napoleon I, and in 
Canada since 1873. Copyright and trade-mark records of the 
United States and Great Britain are also to be found here. 
These publications, numbering thousands of volumes, many of 
them high-priced and scarce, are invaluable to inventors 
and patent solicitors in determining priorit}' of invention or 
the state of the arts. 

Books for the blind. — The Library possesses an attractive 
collection of 1,200 volumes of books for the blind, including 




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two current monthly magazines, printed in four systems of 
raised characters, known as the Moon, Braille, American 
Line, and New York Point systems. 

The Library co-operates with the Park Boards by equip- 
ping, in charge of librarians, reading-rooms provided in the 
fieldhouses; with public and private schools, by furnishing 
classroom libraries; with institutions, in like manner, and also 
maintains business-house deposit-collections in a number of 
commercial and industrial establishments for the use of 
employees. 

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THE JOHN CRERAR LIBRARY 

no N. Wabash Ave., 5th and 6th floors of Marshall Field Building. 
Hours, 9 A.M. to 10 P.M. except Sundays only. 

President: Peter S. Grosscup 
Secretary: Leonard A. Beesley 
Librarian: Clement W. Andrews 

Foundation and development. — The John Crerar Library, 
the youngest of the free public libraries of Chicago, owes its 
existence to the bequest of the late John Crerar, probated 
and established as valid in 1893. The amount bequeathed 
was estimated at the time to be about $2,500,000 but 
various improvements in business conditions have materially 
increased this sum to a total of about $3,500,000. The 
Board of Directors, designated by Mr. Crerar, decided 
immediately after the organization that the endowment 
should not be encroached upon, and that a building fund 
for the erection of a permanent home for the library should 
be accumulated from the income . This fund in 1 9 1 1 amounted 
to over $950,000, and is to be expended in the near future 
upon the erection of an adequate building for the Library, 
which will stand as a fitting memorial to its founder, and 
in which the aims of his bequest may be more adequately 
realized. 

Scope. — The Chicago Public Library had previously been 
established as a great lending library, and the Newberry 
Library was being developed as a non-scientific library. The 
great field left open to the newly erected library therefore was 
that of science. Accordingly, the directors decided to estab- 
lish a free public library of scientific literature, together with 
the technical branches, thus rounding out in an effective way 
the library field in the city of Chicago. Its special field may 
be defined as that of the natural, physical, and social sciences, 
and their applications. The books are divided into six 
classes: General Works, Social Sciences, Physical Science, 
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Natural Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Applied Sciences. 
The last-named class includes the applied fine arts, but not 
music, sculpture, or painting. With three exceptions, 
theology, philology, and law, all subjects comprehended by 
a broad interpretation of its field as thus defined are to be 
found in the Library. 

Rooms. — The Reading-Room, furnished in dark oak, is 
on the sixth floor, and accommodates about 130 readers. 
Opening from the Reading-Room is the Senn Room, the 
reading-room for the Medical Sciences, furnished in the same 
general style. This accommodates 60 readers. Also opening 
from the Reading-Room is the Public Catalogue Room 
containing 16 seats for readers, and cases with 1,164 trays 
for the card catalogues. The Society Room is on the fifth 
floor, with separate entrance. It seats about 50, and its 
use is granted by the Committee on Administration, without 
charge, to meetings for scientific and educational purposes, 
and can be secured for the stated meetings of societies. The 
stack rooms are on three floors, and have at present seats 
for about 50 readers engaged in special research, and shelf- 
room for some 320,000 volumes. In the Reading-Room is 
shelved a collection of 4,000 volumes, intended to include, 
besides general works of reference and the most useful bibliog- 
raphies, the best books, both advanced and popular, on each 
important subject within the scope of the Library, and a 
selection of the other works of especial interest. It is con- 
stantly revised and kept up to date. This collection may be 
consulted without formality, as also may the periodicals 
within the Periodical Alcove. The Reading-Room contains 
also cases for new books, where the latest acquisitions are 
made available for the public. 

The Library had entered 275,000 volumes upon its books 
on June i, 1911, besides some 85,000 pamphlets, and 2,911 
maps and plates. It is a good working collection in most of 
the subjects within its scope, and elaborately equipped in 
certain fields. 

Collections. — The Gerritsen Library is the largest and most 
important of the special purchases. It contains some 18,000 
volumes and 15,000 pamphlets on social and economic sub- 

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jects, being especially full on finance, banking, labor, and 
socialism. It includes a distinct collection of nearly 6,000 
volumes and pamphlets on the social, political, and legal 
status of woman. 

Other noteworthy collections are: some 300 volumes 
on ornithology, bought of the Newberry Library in 1898; 
the private library of Professor R. T. Ely, consisting of 
6,000 volumes and 4,000 pamphlets, mostly on American 
labor and social movements; the collection of 8,000 volumes 
and 4,000 pamphlets on gynecology and obstetrics, formed 
by the late Dr. Eduard Martin and his son. Dr. August 
Martin; and considerable purchases at auction of mathe- 
matical books from the libraries of Boncompagni and Bierens 
de Haan, and of zoological books from that of Milne-Edwards. 

Besides 3,070 current periodicals which are kept in the 
Periodical Alcove of the Reading-Room and in the Senn 
Room, the Library receives some 7,000 other continuations, 
such as annual reports and parts of books issued serially, 
which are placed on the regular shelves as soon as received. 

The Library has paid special attention to the collection of 
public documents, and is a "designated depository" of the 
Congressional Documents, a special depository of the publica- 
tions of the United States Geological Survey, and a depository 
of all bills, resolves, and acts of Congress since 1901. Many 
state and some city documents, domestic and foreign, have 
been acquired. 

Catalogues. — Nearly 60 per cent of the titles are printed in 
the card catalogues especially for the Library, and almost all 
the remainder are obtained from the Library of Congress, 
The public card catalogue is in three divisions: author, 
classed-subject, and alphabetic-subject index. The classed- 
subject catalogue is the one most consulted, and has been 
made as full as possible. It is arranged according to the 
Decimal Classification with few alterations but many expan- 
sions. Under each final subdivision the arrangement of the 
titles is chronological, the latest being put first. Under each 
political unit (country, province or state, and town) are given 
the titles of all works dealing directly or chiefly with the 
place. These are subdivided systematically in accordance 
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with the first three figures of the main classification. The 
result is not only that works of adjacent places are brought 
together, and works on part of a country immediately follow 
those on the whole country; but also under each place related 
subjects are brought together. The alphabetical subject 
index is primarily an index to the classed-subject catalogue. 
Publications. — The Library issues, usually in May, an 
Annual Report covering the previous calendar year. Copies 
are sent free, upon request. The bibliographical publications 
are not distributed gratuitously. 

The use of the Library by the public has fully justified the 
decision of its directors as to its scope and character. Begin- 
ning with 80, the average daily attendance has increased to 
442 in 19 10 in spite of the secluded location of the library. 
The recorded use of books, not on the open shelves, has 
increased from 15,000 in the first year to 155,000 in 19 10. 
The Library commends itself particularly by its carefully 
selected and exhaustive scientific material, the development 
of an unusually efficient card catalogue, and a singular 
exclusion of distractions which might disturb the reader. 

It is evident that such a library would attract readers in 
search of information rather than of recreation, but it must not 
be understood that it appeals only or even chiefly to university 
professors and students. On the contrary, these form a 
relatively small proportion. While engineers and physicians 
are the largest two classes, business men in search of business 
information, technical chemists, mechanists and many other 
skilled laborers, workers in social and political movements, 
normal- and high-school teachers and their students form a 
considerable element. To all those and in general to all who 
need scientific information The John Crerar Library extends 
a most cordial welcome. 



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THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY 

Washington Sq., Walton PI., Clark St., Oak St., and Dearborn Ave. 

President: Eliphalet W. Blatchford 
Secretary: Jesse L. Moss 
Librarian: William N. C. Carlton 

Location. — The Library may be reached from the down- 
town district by the Clark St. and N. State St. car lines. 
Lincoln Park is a near neighbor on the east. 

Building. — The building was erected in 1893 ^.t a cost of 
over half a million dollars, and is a pleasing structure in 
Spanish Romanesque style. The present structure is but one 
face of the edifice planned, which is to cover the entire square, 
having within a central court, 60X180 ft. 

Resources. — The Library was founded in 1887 from a 
bequest by Walter Loomis Newberry. Since that time, 
over $600,000 have been expended in the purchase of books, 
periodicals, and fittings for the Library. Aside from the 
revenues of the original foundation, the library has grown by 
the addition of some splendid donations, particularly of the 
Edward E. Ayer Collection. 

At present the Library contains over 272,000 books, 
pamphlets, manuscripts, maps, engravings, etc. In addition 
to this, over 900 periodicals are kept on file. 

Regulations. — The Library is open every day, except 
Sundays and legal holidays, from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Certain 
departments close at 5 o'clock, but readers may file applica- 
tions for the use of books from these in the general reading- 
room. 

The Library is strictly a reference library, and books may 
not be withdrawn. Several thousand general reference 
books and newly received books are kept on open shelves. 
The others are drawn by applying to an attendant. 

Contents of the Library. — The Newberry Library is a general 
reference library, except for scientific books, all of which have 



been transferred to the John Crerar Library. Its principal 
departments are: 

The Department of History, including biography and travel, 
is a general collection of representative historical books and 
documents, both specific and general. Its strength in works 
relating to America is exceptional. Mr. Edward E. Ayer's 
comprehensive collection of Americana has largely been 
transferred to the Library. Such parts of it as are not housed 
in the Library are at the reader's disposal within short notice. 
This collection contains exhaustive material on the American 
Indian, his ethnology and political history, including manu- 
script documents, treaties, letters, drawings on paper and 




THE NEWBERRY EiURARV 



skins, and many portraits. An interesting feature of this 
collection is its ancient and rare books of travel and ex- 
ploration and many costly maps. Among these are numer- 
ous sailing charts known as Portolanos, made between 1456 
and 1600. 

A genealogic index of very exhaustive character has been 
prepared in 1,103 folio volumes, which contain over a million 
references to American families. This is probably the 
most exhaustive and efficient index of family-trees ever 
prepared. 

Department of Documents . — The department contains more 
than 25,000 volumes and pamphlets issued by the United 
States government, by foreign governments, by states of 



the American Union, and by their more important munici- 
palities. 

Department of Philosophy. — Includes philosophy proper, 
religion, sociology, and education. 

Arts and Letters. — The art collection consists of works on 
aesthetics and the history of art, including architecture, 
painting, and sculpture, together with biographies of artists. 
Coins, pottery, costumes — the various arts and crafts are all 
included here. 

The Department of Letters contains the representative 
literature of the English and more important foreign languages. 
Department of Philology. — The Department of Philology 
was brought into prominence by the acquisition of the 
famous library — 16,500 volumes and pamphlets — of Prince 
Louis Lucien Bonaparte, on the history of man as developed 
through speech. The primary aim was to bring together 
specimens of all the languages and dialects of Europe; but 
it was soon enlarged to the acquisition of some specimen of 
every known language possessing even the most rudimentary 
literature. To this department was added the Eames Col- 
lection, consisting of 3,257 volumes and pamphlets relating 
to British India, Afghanistan, Tibet, and Further India. 

Department of Music. — In 1889 the Library secured the 
musical collection of Count Pio Resse, of Florence, consisting 
largely of works of Italian writers on the theory and the 
history of music. There have been added, from time to time, 
orchestral and vocal scores, works on the history and theory 
of music, on musical instruments, biographies of musicians, 
dictionaries, encyclopedias, and periodicals. 

Other collections. — (i) The Clarke Collection of works — 
1,453 volumes and 429 pamphlets — on fish, fish-culture, 
and angling; (2) the collection of works on Egypt; (3) the 
Bailey Collection of works on China; (4) the Blatchford 
Collection of works on libraries and library buildings; (5) 
the collection of English and American hymnbooks. 

Department of Bibliography. — Of the department of books 
about books it need be said only that it is of necessity one of 
the strongest in the Library, and adequate to the continuous 
demand made upon its resources. 
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THE MUSEUM 

The Museum presents as its special feature the choicer 
items of the Probasco Collection, about 1,200 volumes of 
masterpieces in the arts of calligraphy, illumination, printing, 
illustration, and binding. Among the modern manuscripts 
are poems of Burns, Bloomfield, and Thomson, and sermons 
of Cotton INIather and Increase Mather. The Museum has 
the four Shakespere folios, 1623, 1632, 1664, 1685. 

Early printing. — The Museum contains choice works of 
the old masters of typography, including over three hundred 
incunabula. Among these are the Latin Bible printed in 
Strasburg, 1466, by Heinrich Eggestein, and Cicero's De 
Amicitia of the same year, printed in Cologne by its first 
typographer, Ulrich Zell. 

Early engraving. — Specimens of first attempts at engraving 
are to be found in such books as the copy of Roswitha, the 
1499 Aldine edition of Hypnerotomachia PoHphili, and the 
early books of emblems. 

Binding. — Many of the 1,200 volumes in the Museum are 
excellent specimens of book-binding, dating from the fifteenth 
century to the present time. 

Letters of inquiry are received in considerable number 
and the desired information is carefully prepared by trained 
attendants, and readily given by the Library. Certain 
books not in constant demand are also loaned to other libraries 
under an inter-library loan agreement. 

During the past year over 66,000 people have used the 
Library, and over 100,000 books were consulted. In its field 
the Library is excellently equipped; the material is well organ- 
ized and easily accessible. The Newberry Library offers an 
excellent field for literary browsing to the general reader. Its 
claim on distinction, however, lies in its splendidly specialized 
collections. In these the student finds an exhaustive treat- 
ment of many fields of knowledge, careful criticisms, and rare 
documents. The lover of books also will find much to delight 
his heart in the quaint illuminated manuscripts of mediaeval 
monks, the curious drawings of the old map-makers, and 
the exquisite tooling of the world's famous book-binders. 

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THE CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY 

W. Ontario St. and N. Dearborn Ave. 

President: Thomas Dent 
Librarian: Caroline M. McIlvaine 

Objects. — The objects of the Society are to institute and 
encourage historical inquiry, to collect and preserve the 
materials of history, and to spread historical information 
concerning the northwestern states, particularly Illinois. The 
Society has always had the support of a great number of the 
most representative and public-spirited men of Chicago, 
both financially and in the direction of its affairs. 

Admission and privileges. — The Library, Museum, and 
collection of paintings are open daily, except Sunday, from 
9 A.M. to 5 P.M. and are free to the public. Writers and teachers 
are granted every facility. Children visiting the building 
individually are cheerfully given assistance, and classes 
accompanied by teachers are personally conducted through 
the collections by the librarian or assistants. 

The Library. — In the half-century and more that has 
elapsed since the field of the Society was defined there has 
been brought together a collection of 150,000 books, maps, 
and manuscripts in which every phase in the development 
of the Middle West is represented and in which certain depart- 
ments have become very complete. Naturally, the two 
sections that have been the most highly developed are Illi- 
nois and Chicago. The books specifically on the Mississippi 
Valley, including its archaeology, exploration, settlement, 
and commercial development, fill several cases. Through 
the generous gift by Mr. Charles H. Conover the Society is 
made the possessor of the most complete collection of books 
on the Lewis and Clark expedition in existence. The col- 
lection of maps is very complete, from the charts of prehistoric 
periods and the maps of the explorers to recent atlases of 
counties. 

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Space is lacking to treat in any detail the manuscript 
collections of the Society. There is a collection of over 
15,000 manuscripts, among them many of first interest to 
scholars. The papers relating to the French regime in Illi- 




THE CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY BUILDING 



nois and in the Missisisippi Valley are particularly valuable. 
They comprise original documents and letters in the hand- 
writing of Joliet, Allouez, LaSalle, Tonty, Frontenac, and 
other governors of New France, copies of the parish registers 
of the early French missions, etc. 

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The Society is fortunate in having early begun the col- 
lection of Illinois newspapers, which date from 1819 and 
include a large number of the more important papers pub- 
lished outside of Chicago. The collection of the Chicago 
papers begins with the Chicago Democrat, 1833, and includes 
the titles of perhaps every paper published in the city, although 
many files are far from complete. 

Lectures. — Historical lectures are maintained during 
nine months of each year. These are open to all interested 
in history. 

A course of Saturday morning lectures on the history of 
Chicago and the Old Northwest has been given, and a plan 
is on foot to furnish a lecturer on this subject to the schools 
gratis. Occasional lectures are given by the librarian in 
schools and settlements. 

Museum. — Not the least important branch of the Society's 
equipment is a Historical Museum supplementing the Library, 
in which almost every phase of the development of the Old 
Northwest Territory and Mississippi Valley is illustrated 
graphically. The exhibits consist of models of Indian mounds, 
and of forts; relief maps, original pictures of early streets 
and residences, aboriginal relics, and relics from battlefields, 
and a portrait gallery where may be seen the faces of repre- 
sentatives of the various regimes — Spanish, French, British, 
American — which have been the determining factors in the 
history of Chicago and of the Central West. 

Growing out of the Museum w^ork are the special 
anniversary exhibitions adapted to interest children and 
adults alike. The birthdays of Washington and Lincoln 
and the anniversaries of important events in American his- 
tory have become yearly institutions in the Society's work 
and have been productive of valuable results in fostering 
in the youth reverence for American institutions and tradi- 
tions. 

Publications. — The Society has occasionally issued his- 
torical studies which make available much valuable source 
material, and are distributed gratis to members, and are in 
part available for students generally. Nine volumes have 
been issued so far, with others in preparation. 
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OTHER LIBRARIES 

The Evanstont Public Library. — Orrington Ave. and 
Church St., Evanston. 

48,000 volumes, general in character. 

Circulating Department free to Evanston residents; 
open to non-residents for fee of $2.50 per year or 25 cents 
per month. Reference Department free to all. 

Hours. — 9 A.M. to 9 P.M. week days. Reading-Room also 
open from 2 to 6 p.m. on Sundays and holidays. All depart- 
ments closed on Christmas, New Year's, Independence Day, 
and Thanksgiving. 

Special collections. — Coe Music Collection, a reference and 
circulating library of about 1,200 books, 300 music scores, 
and 500 pianola rolls. Pianola-piano for use at stated periods. 

Webster Medical Library, containing some 600 books and 
periodicals on medical sciences and allied branches; including 
special collections on diseases of women and children. 

The Evanston Historical Society's Collection of about 
2,000 volumes, pamphlets, and pictures and objects of his- 
torical interest is open to library patrons on request. 

Extension work. — Deposit stations; schoolroom libraries; 
playground libraries. Occasional free lectures in Library Hall. 

Oak Park Public Library. — Scoville Institute, Oak Park. 

The Oak Park Public Library contains 22,000 volumes 
and 2,000 pamphlets. It is open every day except Sundays 
and holidays from 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Library privileges are 
free to residents of Oak Park and to those whose business 
is located there. 

LAW libraries 

Ashland Block Associationt maintains a library for 
lawyers resident in Ashland Block. 

Chicago Bar Association, 69 W. Washington St.; Carlos 
r. Sawyer, librarian. — A private library for the use of the 
members only. The library contains aproximately 10,000 
volumes consisting of reports of the decisions of the courts 
of the several states, the federal courts and the courts of 
England; statutes, digests, and reference books. 

Chicago Law Institute, 1025 County Building; Wm. 
H. Holden, librarian; Alfred E. Barr, secretary. — The 

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Chicago Law Institute is a law library exclusively. It con- 
tains about 54,000 volumes, is accessible to members; judges; 
state, county, and city Law Departments; state, county 
and city officials; visiting lawyers; students; and to other 
persons upon introduction by members, for temporary con- 
sultation. Open from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Sundays from 
10 A.M. to 4 P.M. 

MEDICAL LIBRARIES 

Columbus Memorial Medical Library. — For tenants 
of the Columbus Memorial Building. 

See also Medical Schools and Evanston Public Library. 

THEOLOGICAL LIBRARIES 

See Educational Institutions: Theological Seminaries. 
libraries in foreign languages 

German-American Historical Society of Illinois, 
Dr. Otto L. Schmidt, Schiller Building. — The organization is 
active in the maintenance of German-American institutions, 
and has assembled an important library in its field. 

Swedish Historical Society of America, Librarian: 
Professor J. E. Hillberg, Swedish Theological Seminary, 
Evanston, 111. — The library of the Society includes important 
sets of Swedish history and literature, and Swedish-American 
books and pamphlets. Current Swedish-American news- 
papers are kept on file. The library may be used after 
previous arrangement. 

See also Alliance Frangaise, Germania, Schwabenverein. 
miscellaneous 

Loyal Legion of America, Illinois Commandery, 320 
Ashland Block, 59 Clark St. Wm. E. Furness, librarian; 
E. A. Davenport, custodian. — A reference library, open from 
9 A.M. to 5 p.m., containing material particularly on the Civil 
War; 4,000 volumes. 

The Western Society of Engineers maintains an 
assembly room, library and reading-room, etc., and these 
are open to the public on all business days from 9 a.m. until 
5 p.m., or 4 P.M. on Saturdays. The library contains about 
8,000 volumes of an engineering, technical, and scientific 
character. The library is a governmental depository. 
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THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO 

Michigan Ave., opposite Adams St. 

President: Charles L. Hutchinson 
Director: William M. R. French 
Secretary: Newton H. Carpenter 

The Museum Building is open to the public every week 
day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; on Sundays from i p.m. to 5 p.m. 
Admission to museum and library is free to members and 
their families at all times, and free to all on Wednesdays, Sat 
urdays, Sundays, and public holidays. During the past year 
the attendance of visitors has been about 720,000. 

The Art Institute comprises a museum of paintings, 
sculpture, and other objects of art, a school of art instruction, 
and an art library. 

THE MUSEUM 

The collections are numerous and important, so that the 
institution now ranks among the three or four most important 
art museums in the country. 

The Henry Field Collection of paintings includes 41 
pictures, and represents chiefly the Barbizon school of French 
painters, including Millet's well-known "Bringing Home 
the New-born Calf," Jules Breton's "Song of the Lark," 
Troyon's "Returning from the Market," and fine examples 
of Rousseau, Corot, Cazin, Constable, and Daubigny. 

Old masters of the Dutch school from the Demidofif Col- 
lection are represented by Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Dyck, 
Frans Hals, and Holbein; "The Guitar Lesson," by Terburg 
and "A Family Concert," by Jan Steen; one of Hobbema's 
masterpieces; the "Jubilee," by Van Ostade; and Teniers 
Ruisdael, and Adriaan Van de Velde. These paintings are 
now of immense value. To this are added a large altar piece 
by El Greco, "The Assumption of the Virgin," and Cranach 
the Elder's "Night in the Garden." 

The comprehensive collection bequeathed by Albert 
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Mungcr contains examples from Meissonicr, Bouguereau, 
Corot, De Neuville, Detaille, Michctti, Munkacsy, Gerome, 
Rosa Bonheur, Van Marcke, Fromentin, Vibert, Roybet 
Bargue, Zimmerman, Koekkoek, Troyon, Courbet, Isabey 
Makart, and many other leaders of modern art. 

The Nickerson Collection embraces Japanese, Chinese 
and East Indian objects of art, in all about 1,300 objects, 
and a collection of modern paintings. The most extraor- 
dinary feature of it is the collection of jades, agates, and 
crystals, one of the finest in America. The pictures of the 
Nickerson Collection consist of 62 oil paintings from mod- 




THE ART INSTITUTE IN GRANT PARK 



ern masters, water colors, engravings, and Japanese prints 
and kakemonos. 

Recent acquisitions are from Manet, SoroUa, Boutct de 
Monvel, and eighteen paintings by George Inness. 

The collection of paintings by American artists, many of 
them the gift of the Friends of American Art, includes 
valuable examples of Whistler, Chase, Dannat, Inness, and 
many others. 

The Art Institute also keeps up important loan collections, 
and holds passing exhibitions, so that the exhibition of pic- 
tures is at all times very extensive. 

A gallery has been set apart for a continuous exhibition 
of paintings and sculptures by Chicago artists. Another 
gallery contains the Rosenbaum Collection of Ivories. 
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The large Elbridge G. Hall Collection includes reproduc- 
tions of classical, renaissance, and modern sculpture. 

Another clement in the sculpture collection is the gallery of 
reproductions of the antique bronzes of the Naples Museum. 
This collection was the gift of H. N. Higinbotham in 1893. 

The Blackstone Collection of architectural casts occupies 
an immense gallery, and consists chiefly of French historic 
sculptures. There is no other similar collection in America. 




READING-ROOM Ol- RYERSON LIBRARY, THE ART INSTITUTE 
OF CHICAGO 



It includes cathedral portals and other architectural sculp- 
ture from the eleventh to the nineteenth century. Some of 
the casts are 35 ft. long and more than 30 ft. high. 

Other fields of art are represented by collections of an- 
tiquities, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman, and embroideries, 
tapestries, painted fans, textiles, etc. 

The department of prints also has become important. The 
most notable feature of it is a nearly complete collection 
of Meryon's etchings. 

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ART SCHOOL 

The school of instruction in art practice includes well- 
organized departments of painting, sculpture, illustration, 
decorative designing, normal instruction, and architecture. 
It has grown to be the most comprehensive and probably 
the largest fine arts school in the United States. There are 
about 700 regular day students, 400 evening students, and 
400 normal and juvenile students. The whole enrolment 
is about 3,000 a year. This school is nearly self-supporting, 
earning and expending about $65,000 per annum. The most 
advanced branches are taught, and distinguished teachers 
from a distance are called in from time to time. 

LECTURES 

Fullerton Memorial Hall, seating 475 people, is used for 
lecture purposes by a variety of organizations. The Art 
Institute holds here about 250 lectures a year, mostly on art. 
A considerable number of these lectures are open to the public 
without charge. 

LIBRARY 

The Ryerson Library is a beautiful and commodious 
building, and the Library has become one of the most valuable 
parts of the Institute, consulted annually by 65,000 persons. 
It contains at present about 7,000 volumes, strictly confined 
to fine art, and including many valuable works. In it is 
kept the great collection of large carbon photographs known 
as the Braun Autotypes, 16,000 in number. 

The value of the permanent collections is estimated at 
about a million and a half dollars. The building has cost 
$1,200,000. The institute is supported by endowment, 
membership dues, taxation levied by the South Park Com- 
missioners, door fees, and voluntary gifts. 

The Art Institute is in the fullest sense an institution 
conducted for the public good. The galleries are open abso- 
lutely free to the public more than 160 days every year, and 
upon other days not only the members and their families, 
numbering more than 10,000, but artists and public-school, 
teachers and pupils are freely admitted. Classes studying 
art are admitted free at all times under easy conditions. 
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FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 

Jackson Park 

President of the Board of Trustees: Stanley Field 

Director of the Museum: Frederick J. V. Skiff 

Curators: Dr. George A. Dorsey, Anthropology; Dr. Charles F. 
MiLLSPAUGH, Botany; Dr. Oliver C. Farrington, Geology; Charles 
B. Cory, Zoology 

Recorder: D. C. Da vies 

Librarian: Elsie Lippincott 

The Museum is open to the public daily, except Thanks- 
giving and Christmas, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. On Saturdays 
and Sundays during July and August the hour for closing 
is 5:30 P.M. Admission is free Saturdays and Sundays. 
On other days the entrance fee is 25 cents for adults; children 
under twelve, 10 cents. Teachers and scholars are admitted 
free at all times on presentation of proper credentials. 

The Museum was established in 1894 at the close 
of the World's Columbian Exposition by a gift of $1,000,000 
by Marshall Field and about an equal amount from other 
citizens of Chicago. Mr. Field bequeathed the institution a 
further $8,000,000 in 1906 — $4,000,000 for the erection of a 
permanent building and $4,000,000 for endowment. The 
Museum since its establishment has occupied the Fine Arts 
Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, but will 
soon be removed to a permanent building now in process of 
erection north of the present site. All phases of natural 
history are represented in the collections, divided into the 
four groups of Anthropology, Botany, Geology, and Zoology. 

Four courts, arranged in the form of a cross, with 
galleries and adjoining halls and one wing to the east of 
the main building are now utilized for exhibition purposes. 
In the north court are extensive collections devoted to 
the archaeology of Europe. In the east court the archaeology 
and ethnology of America are largely represented. Passing 
north from the east court will be found a large hall devoted 

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to Egyptian archaeology, a very large and valuable collection 
illustrating this subject having been brought together here 
by Mr. Edward E. Ayer and others. The next hall eastward 
is devoted to archaeological specimens of the Hopi Indians. 
The halls found in the east annex are chiefly devoted to the 
ethnology of Asia and Africa, and include large collections 
from China, Tibet, and the Philippines, and from Somaliland, 
New Guinea, and New Zealand. In the halls to the south of 
the east court large and important collections relating chiefly 
to American ethnology will be found. The largest hall is 
devoted to the so-called Tribes of the Great Plains and con- 
tains a large collection of the ornaments, ceremonial objects, 
implements, and weapons of these tribes. In adjoining 
halls are collections illustrating the ethnology of the 
Indians of British Columbia and Alaska, and an entire hall 
devoted to the Esquimos. 

The west and south courts of the building with adjoining 
halls are devoted to zoological exhibits. Groups of many 
varieties of animals have been prepared to show them in 
lifelike attitudes in their natural surroundings. Prominent 
among these may be noted in the rotunda a group of two 
large African elephants, in the center of the south court a 
large case containing four habitats of white-tailed deer in the 
four seasons, a group of mountain sheep and another of 
polar bears. A number of table cases in this court contain 
a collection of shells and mollusks numbering many thousand 
specimens. The greater part of the west court is devoted to 
•groups of large mammals collected by a Museum East Afri- 
can Expedition in 1896. The gazelles, antelopes, hyenas, and 
other animals of Africa are well represented in characteristic 
groups. A large case in this court also shows habitat groups 
of various birds. In adjoining halls are to be found large sys- 
tematic collections of birds, divided into American and foreign; 
single specimens of large and small mammals; a large osteo- 
logical collection, representing over 280 species of all kinds 
of animals; a hall devoted to fishes and reptiles; and a hall 
devoted to invertebrates, sponges, corals, star-fishes, etc. 

North of the west court a number of halls are devoted to 
the geological collections. Among these H. N. Higinbotham 

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Hall contains one of the finest collections of gems in the world, 
nearly all the known gems being represented by remarkable 
specimens. A very remarkable collection of East Indian 
jewelry is also shown here. Skiff Hall is devoted to ores of 
the precious and base metals, all the important mining 
regions of the world being represented. In another hall a 
large mineral collection is shown. In alcoves adjoining these 
halls are 75 relief maps; a very large collection of meteorites, 
containing remarkable specimens; a collection illustrating 
the origin and uses of petroleum, and a model of the moon 
18 ft. in diameter. There is a very large and complete 
collection of fossils arranged from the earliest to the latest and 
representing the successive forms of life which have character- 
ized the world's history. Prominent among the larger 
specimens here are a partial skeleton of one of the largest 
known of the ancient lizards or dinosaurs, a skull of the 
great horned dinosaur Triceratops, and a complete skeleton 
of a mastodon. 

The Department of Botany and Plant Economics occu- 
pies the galleries of the north, south, east, and a part of the 
west courts of the main building. The exhibit contains over 
300 fully installed cases grouped according to botanical 
families and intended to emphasize the economic relations 
of the members of these families as well as their botanical 
and structural characters. Carefully constructed models in 
many cases show the structure of flowers and fruits, often 
in enlarged form. In addition to the economic exhibit 
the department contains a herbarium of about 400,000 
specimens including about 2,500 types and figured specimens. 

The Library adjoining the north court contains about 
50,000 books and pamphlets of a scientific character, 
designed for reference only. The public is admitted to the 
general reading-room and books may be consulted upon 
application to the librarian. 

Lectures. — In addition to the exhibits open to the public, 
courses of lectures are conducted by the Museum, at present in 
FuUerton Hall of the Art Institute. These lectures are given on 
Saturday afternoons in the months of March, April, October, 
and November. Admission to these lectures is free. 

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THE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 

Founded in 1857, Lincoln Park, Chicago 

Open free to the public every day in the year: from g a.m. to 5 p.m. on 
week days, and from i p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays. 

President: Thom.\s C. Chamberlin 
First Vice-President: Albert L. Stevenson 
Second Vice-President: Ulysses S. Grant 
Se.re'.ary: Wallace W. Atwood 
Curator: Frank C. Baker 

THE MUSEUM 

The work of th3 society has continued more than half a 
century, and during that time several lines of scientiiic study 
in the Chicago region have been encouraged, numerous 
publications have been issued, and the material for a natural- 
history museum has been collected. The collections of birds, 
insects, shells, mammals, minerals, and rocks have been 
arranged from an educational point of view and are of special 
interest and value to those connected with educational work 
in and about the city. For purposes of comparison some 
material from more distant portions of this continent and 
from foreign lands has been placed on exhibition, but special 
attention is given to the arrangement of natural-history 
objects from Illinois and the Upper Mississippi Valley. 
There are vast quantities of material in the study collections 
which are made available upon special request. 

THE EDUCATIONAL WORK 

In addition to the scientific work of the Academy and to 
the public museum, the institution has undertaken several 
new lines of active educational work. 

1. Selected museum collections, lantern slides, and 
stereoscopic views illustrating nature studies are loaned free 
of charge to teachers, schools, and to the homes of members. 

2. Illustrated lessons and laboratory work in nature- 

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study are offered free of charge to delegates from the public 
and private schools. 

3. Instructional courses in the sciences are offered to 
teachers. 

4. University extension courses are given at the Academy. 

5. Illustrated lectures are given at the schools and Park 
Houses by members of the Academy staff. 

6. Illustrated lectures are given at the Academy to which 
the public is admitted free of charge. 




THE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES BUILDING 

7. Field excursions are conducted for children and for 
teachers. 

8. By appointment teachers may arrange to have their 
classes conducted through the museum by a member of the 
staff. 

9. The Academy lecture hall may be used by scientific 
societies by appointment. 

10. Instruction is offered in the care and preparation of 
museum materials. 

Announcements of courses of instruction are made in the 
Bulletin of the Academy, which is sent to all members and 
may be had by others upon application. 
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SOME PROSPECTIVE PLANS 

To construct a children's museum with a large auditorium. 

To prepare laboratories and workrooms for instructional 
work. 

To cond uct experimental work in the adaptation of scien- 
tific material and data to educational work. 

To prepare suitable reading material for nature-study. 

To conduct a nature-study camp. 

To ofifer advanced instructional work to teachers. 

To ofifer scientific courses of instruction during the even- 
ings for young people who are unable to undertake such 
work during the day. 

MEMBERSHIP IN THE ACADEMY 

New members are elected to the Academy by the Execu- 
tive Board on the nomination of two voting members. 

Further information regarding the work of the Academy, 
the opportunities for nature-studies and nature-study excur- 
sions in and about Chicago, the requirements for member- 
ship in the society, and the needs of the Academy will be 
gladly furnished by the secretary. 

OTHER MUSEUMS 

Other museums, particularly of scientific and archaeologi- 
cal interest, are maintained by various educational institu- 
tions. They are described under the several institutions, 
principal among which reference may be made to: The 
University of Chicago; Northwestern University; Loyola 
University. 

Aside from these larger collections, practically all of the 
city high schools have working collections of natural history 
and industrial products, as have many of the private secondary 
schools, notably the University High School. These are 
primarily for the purposes of classroom instruction, but to 
most of them the public has access. 



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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 

Midway Plaisance 
President: Harry Pratt Judson 

The University includes the Graduate School of Arts and 
Literature; the Ogden (Graduate) School of Science; the 
Colleges (Senior and Junior) of Arts, Literature, and Science; 
the Divinity School, the Law School, Courses in Medicine, 
the School of Education, the College of Commerce and 
Administration, 

Though the University is maintained primarily for those 
who can give their entire time to academic work, it extends 
many privileges to the general public. 

UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES 

The Libraries of the University, containing approximately 
340,000 bound and catalogued volumes, besides a large amount 
of material as yet uncatalogued, include the General Library 
and the Departmental Libraries. 

The General Library is a reference and circulating library 
now located in the University Press Building, 58th St. and 
Ellis Ave., but will in the autumn of 191 1 be established in 
the new Harper Memorial Library Building, 59th St. and 
Greenwood Ave. 

The Departmental Libraries are primarily reference and 
research libraries and are located mainly in the departmental 
buildings. They contain books especially needed in connec- 
tion with the work of investigation and instruction of a par- 
ticular department. 

The Reading-Room of the General Library and the 
Library of the School of Education are open to the public 
from 8 : 30 a.m. to 5 : 30 p.m. 

Library privileges are rather freely offered to teachers, 
scholars, and residents of the city generally. A statement of 
the regulations may be secured from the Director of Uni- 
versity Libraries, The University of Chicago. 
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The Library of the Laio Scluwl contains the most important 
legal collection in the city, consisting of over 33,000 volumes, 
and includes practically all of the reports and statutes in the 
English language, and a considerable amount of material in 
foreign languages. 

The Library of the Divinity School is a comprehensive 
theological library and includes the Hcngstenberg Collection 
and the Colvvell Library. 

UNIVERSITY MUSEUMS 

The Museums of the University, though installed for the 
educational purposes of the institution rather than public 
exhibition, are yet open to any who may choose to visit them, 
on all days of the week — 8:30 a.m.-5:oo p.m. — Saturday 
afternoons and Sundays excepted. 

Haskell Oriental Museum contains valuable collections 
illustrating oriental art and archaeology — chiefly Egypt, 
Babylonia, and Japan. The Egyptian collection is especially 
valuable, embracing nearly 10,000 original monuments, either 
written or material documents, from all of the great epochs 
of Egyptian history and archaeology. 

The Walker Museum collections are estimated to embrace 
over 1,000,000 specimens — mainly rocks, minerals, fossils, 
archaeologic objects, and relief maps. 

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE 

University College is that division of the University 
through which late afternoon, evening, and Saturday classes 
in college and university subjects are conducted throughout 
the year (October i-June 20) in the central portion of the 
city, 7th Floor of Association Building, 19 South La Salle St. 
These courses, which are intended to meet the demands of 
those who are regularly employed in business or in profes- 
sional work but who wish to pursue some systematic course 
of instruction under wise direction, are exactly the same as 
the corresponding courses regularly conducted at the Uni- 
versity except that they meet less frequently — usually one 
session of two hours each week. Full announcements of the 
work of this College are issued about September i, December 
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I, and March i of each year and can he had by addressing 
University College, The University of Chicago. 

CORRESPONDENCE-STUDY DEPARTMENT 

Through the Correspondence-Study Department the 
University endeavors to offer as many as possible of the courses 
given in its classrooms so that those whose formal schooling 
has been interrupted may continue their studies. Besides 
contributing to culture, many of the courses, because of 
their bearing on [)roblems of everyday life, may be turned 
to immediate practical account. 

THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION 

The School of Education gives a number of its courses 
late in the afternoon with a view to accommodating teachers 
in the public schools who wish to do University work at the 
same time that they are engaged in teaching. 

PUBLIC LECTURES, CONCERTS, RECITALS, ETC. 

Throughout the year there are offered at the University at 
late afternoon and evening hours many free public lectures 
on social, economic, historical, literary, religious, and scientific 
themes by men of distinction from this and other institutions. 
These lectures are announced in the University Weekly 
Calendar which can be consulted at most libraries and educa- 
tional institutions. 

During the Summer Quarter (June 15-September i) many 
lectures, recitals, and open-air plays are given from 3 : 30 p.m.- 
5:45 P.M. on Tuesdays and Fridays. Tuesday evening of 
each week a concert and Friday evening a popular lecture, 
reading, or other entertainment is given in Leon Mandel 
Assembly Hall. This program affords an opportunity to the 
general public to hear at the University by the payment of a 
small fee speakers of authority and distinction in many depart- 
ments of study and activity. Announcements may be 
secured after June i. 

THE UNIVERSITY LECTURE ASSOCIATION 

The University Lecture Association in co-operation with 
the University of Chicago conducts between October i and 

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May I of each season courses of public lectures and readings 
in different centers in the city. 

The program usually consists of four courses of six lec- 
tures each, delivered at weekly intervals throughout the sea- 
son. The lectures deal with such literary, historical, social, 
economic, and scientific subjects as are of interest to the gen- 
eral public. Their purpose is to enable the average busy 
man or woman to keep in touch with the progress of thought 
in the larger fields of human knowledge. The lectures, some 
of which are illustrated with stereopticon views, are pre- 
sented in a popular manner by experienced public speakers. 

These lectures are held at four places: 

On the North Side, in the Fullerton Avenue Presbyterian 
Church, Fullerton Ave. and Hamilton Ct., on Monday 
evenings. 

On the South Side, in Abraham Lincoln Centre, Oakwood 
Blvd. and Langley Ave., on Tuesday evenings. 

On the West Side^ on Thursday evenings in the auditorium 
of Lewis Institute, Robey and Madison Sts. 

Central: In the Music Hall, Fine Arts Building, 410 
South Michigan Blvd., many afternoon and evening lectures, 
readings, and recitals are given under the auspices of the 
Association. 

The complete announcement of the Association, issued 
about September i, can be had upon application to The 
University Lecture Association, The University of Chicago. 

THE UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION 

The University Orchestral Association maintains a series 
of Tuesday afternoon concerts between November i and May 
I of each college year in Leon Mandel Assembly Hall by the 
Theodore Thomas Orchestra and recital artists of renown. 



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NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY 

Evanston and Chicago 

President: Abram W. Harris 

Northwestern University maintains the following ten 
departments: 

College of Liberal Arts, Evanston. 

Medical School, 24th and Dearborn Sts. 

Law School, Northwestern University Bldg., Lake and 
Dearborn Sts. 

College of Engineering, Evanston. 

School of Pharmacy, Northwestern University Bldg., Lake 
and Dearborn Sts. 

Dental School, Northwestern University Bldg. 

School of Music, Evanston. 

School of Commerce, Northwestern University Bldg. 

School of Oratory, Evanston. 

Evanston Academy, on the University Campus. 

The School of Commerce is in the Northwestern Uni- 
versity Building, Lake and Dearborn Sts, It offers evening 
instruction in economics, elementary and corporation finance, 
commercial law, accounting, transportation, and insurance. 

In founding the School of Commerce, business men and 
educators have united to supply the professional training 
which modern business requires. To accommodate the large 
number of men who are precluded by their employment from 
pursuing regular day work at a university, the school offers 
an evening course leading to a diploma in commerce. This 
work is given five evenings a week, between the hours of 
seven and nine, from October to May inclusive. Students 
who are able to carry the work of four courses each evening 
a week can complete the diploma course in three years. A 
total of 539 students have been registered during the past year. 

Extension Courses for Teachers. — For several years the 
University has offered in its city building courses especially 
adapted to the needs of teachers in the public schools. The 

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work in character and amount corresponds to that given in 
the classes of the College of Liberal Arts. A variety of courses 
are offered, with twelve lectures in each course. 

PUBLIC LECTURES AND CONCERTS 

The Norman W . Harris Lectures. — These lectures are given 
each spring from a fund given by Mr. Norman W. Harris. 
The foundation has secured each year some leader of scholarly 
research for a course of lectures. The investigations are not 
restricted to any particular field of knowledge. The lectures 
given on this foundation are published by the University. 
Tickets may be had upon request. 




JAMES A. PATTEN GYMNASIUM— NORTHWESTERN 
UNIVERSITY 



Monday Evening Lectures. — A course of Monday Evening 
Lectures is given during the winter by members of all branches 
of the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts. 

Student Lecture Course. — A series of five public lectures and 
concerts are given annually under the auspices of the College 
Young Men's Christian Association. 

Other lectures are announced from time to time before the 
Science Club, before the Engineering Club, at the Medical 
School, at the School of Commerce, and at Garrett Biblical 
Institute. 

The Artists^ Series of Concerts in the School of Music. — 
These concerts are given under the auspices of the School of 
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Music and are open to the public at a small fee. Prominent 
artists are secured for these concerts. 

LIBRARIES 

The main Library of the University is housed in the 
Orrington Lunt Library Building on the campus. It contains 
the collections of the College of Liberal Arts, College of 
Engineering, School of Music, and Evanston Academy. 
Persons not connected with the University may be granted 




SWIFT HALL OF ENGINEERINTG— NORTHWESTERN 
UNIVERSITY, EVANSTON 

library privileges for purposes of study. Additions are made 
at the rate of about 3,000 volumes a year. The number of 
volumes in the Hbrary July i, 1910, was 78,952. 

The library of the Medical School is in Davis Hall, the 
main building of the School, at 2431 Dearborn St. It con- 
tains a large number of reference books, dictionaries, current 
journals, and all of the larger systems of medicine and surgery. 
In igio the Hbrary contained 5,569 bound and 8,609 unbound 
volumes. 

The library of the Law School contains a large and un 

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usually complete collection of reports, statutes, digests, 
encyclopedias, textbooks, and legal periodicals. In addi- 
tion to this it includes the celebrated Gary Collections, the 
gift of Hon. Elbert H. Gary, '67, of New York City. 

The School of Pharmacy has a valuable pharmaceutical 
reference library of 2,950 bound volumes and pamphlets. 
All the principal chemical and pharmaceutical journals are 
received and on file. 

The Menges Library and Reading-Room of the Dental 
School, named in honor of the late Theodore Menges, con- 
tains 2,904 volumes on dental and collateral subjects, a large 
supply of dictionaries and encyclopedias, and an almost 
complete list of dental journals published in the English 
language, with about 16,000 duplicates. 

MUSEUMS 

The museum of the College of Liberal Arts contains 
several thousand rare and valuable specimens and is divided 
into sections as follows: Anthropology, Botany, Geology, 
Mineralogy, and Zoology. The mineralogy section is in the 
laboratory of Mineralogy and Metallurgy; the other sections 
are on the fourth floor of University Hall. 

The museum of the Medical School is arranged on the 
second floor of the Laboratory Building and contains prepara- 
tions and specimens illustrative of normal, pathological, 
and comparative anatomy. The specimens are preserved in 
the natural color by the Kayserling method. 

The museum of the School of Pharmacy, in one of the rooms 
of the School, is exceptionally complete in exhibits of drugs, 
chemicals, preparations, and apparatus. 

The museum of the Dental School is arranged in the 
reading-room of the library. It contains specimens to 
illustrate comparative anatomy, a complete set of specimens 
of the human skull, and a large collection of abnormal for- 
mations of human teeth. 

The following schools are affiliated with Northwestern 
University: Garrett Biblical Institute, Norwegian-Danish 
Theological Seminary, and Swedish Theological Seminary, 
all at Evanston, Illinois; Elgin Academy, Elgin, Illinois, and 
Grand Prairie Seminary, Onarga, Illinois. 
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THE ARMOUR INSTITUTE OF 
TECHNOLOGY 

Armour Ave. and Thirty-third St. 

President: Frank W. Gunsaulus 
Secretary: Frederick W. Smith 

The Armour Institute of Technology was founded in 
1892 by Mr. Philip Danforth Armour of Chicago. The 
work of instruction was begun in September, 1893. The aim 
of the Institute was expressed in its first public announcement 
as follows: 

"This institution is founded for the purpose of giving to 
young men an opportunity to secure a liberal education. It 
is hoped that its benefits may reach all classes. Its aim 
is broadly pliilanthropic. Profoundly realizing the impor- 
tance of self-reliance as a factor in the development of 
character, the Founder has conditioned his benefactions in 
such a way as to emphasize both their value and the student's 
self-respect. The Institute is not a free school; but its 
charges for instruction are in harmony with the spirit which 
animates alike the Founder, the Trustees, and the Faculty; 
namely, the desire to help those who wish to help themselves." 

The Institute is a college of engineering, ofifering four-year 
courses in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, 
Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Fire Protection 
Engineering, and Architecture. The degree of Bachelor 
of Science is conferred upon the completion of any of these 
courses. Each course represents a carefully balanced group- 
system of studies, combining a broad scientific and engineer- 
ing training with the elements of liberal culture. 

Special courses are offered only in the evening classes 
and summer session. The laboratories and shops of the 
Institute are provided with the most modern equipment 
for instruction and offer unusual facilities for students of 
engineering. The courses in engineering are so arranged and 
graded as to enable the student to become thoroughly conver- 
sant with the principles of contemporary engineering practice, 

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and by persistent association of abstract analysis with practi- 
cal problems to prepare him for a successful professional 
career. 

Beginning with the general elementary subjects in the 
Freshman year, the student is led by gradual stages to the 
more strictly professional work, and the theories presented 




MAIN BUILDING— THE ARMOUR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 

in the lecture-room are, as far as possible, applied to the 
laboratories, drafting-rooms, and shops. Particular stress 
is laid upon systematic reading of current technical periodicals, 
the requirements and maintenance of a technical library, con- 
stant recourse to commercial drawings, repeated visits to manu- 
facturing establishments^ power plants, bridges, and buildings 
in any stage of construction, and engineering projects. 



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LEWIS INSTITUTE 

Madison St., Corner Robey St. 

Director: George N. Carman 
Registrar: P. B. Kohlsaat 

The Lewis Institute is a polytechnic school for both 
sexes. Instruction is given in Engineering and Mechanical 
Arts, in Domestic Economy and Household Arts, and in the 
Liberal Arts. For four years of college work the Institute 
grants to men the degree of Bachelor of Science in Mechanical 
Engineering, and to women the degree of Bachelor of Science 
in Domestic Economy. The title of Associate is given for the 
work of two years of college grade, and the Academy Certifi- 
cate for the work of four years of secondary grade. 

The buildings and equipment represent an expenditure of 
$750,000. The income from endowment is $80,000, and 
from tuition $85,000 annually. The total enrolment in 
1909-10 was 3,136, of whom 1,439 were in day classes 
and 1,697 in evening classes. 

The Day Session opens the third Monday in September and 
continues until the fourth Friday in June. The Day Session 
begins at 8 : 40 a.m. and lasts until 5 p.m. Hours are arranged, 
as far as possible, to suit the convenience of students. 

The Evening Session opens the first Monday in October 
and continues until the third Thursday in May. The opening 
week is set apart for the registration and classification of 
candidates for admission. There are three terms of ten 
weeks each; one before, and two after, the holidays. The 
Evening Session begins at 4 p.m. and lasts until 10 p.m. 
Most of the classes meet from 7:30 to 9:30, for two evenings 
a week — Monday and Wednesday, or Tuesday and Thursday. 

The Summer Session opens the first Monday in July and 
continues for six weeks. 

In January, 1909, a plan of co-operation in the training 
of shop apprentices was inaugurated by the Institute and 
certain manufacturers in Chicago. The apprentices are sent 

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lo the Instil ulc half-time, alternating one week in the shop 
and the next week in school. For shop apprentices the 
session opens the hist Monday in September and continues 
until the last Friday in August, so that each apprentice has 
in a year 22 weeks in school, 26 weeks in shop, and 4 weeks' 
vacation. Boys between sixteen and twenty-one years of age 
are eligible to admission. No formal examination is required 
of ap|)licants, but the candidate must satisfy the employer 
that he is capable of doing the work required in the shop and 




l.ia\ IS l\: 



must satisfy the Institute that he is prepared to profit by the 
instruction that will be given. 

Admission to Lewis Institute is easy; graduation difficult. 
Hundreds of students wlio enter drop out when they reach 
their limit of achievement. Hundreds of others never try 
for a degree, but aim to better, in some degree, their 
present condition. Of the three thousand students now in 
attendance, not more than a tenth part will receive a degree. 
And yet the money spent in teaching these transients is 
wisely spent. The thousands of former students of Lewis 
have already made the whole community richer in money 
and in spirit. 

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LOYOLA UNIVERSITY 

President: Rev. Alexander J. Burrowes, SJ. 
Secretary: Henry S. Spalding, S.J. 

Loyola University is under the direction of the Society of 
Jesus. Its courses are open to students of any religious 
denomination, and to men and women; but the undergraduate 
(college and high-school) courses are for male students only. 

DEPARTMENTS 

I. St. Ignatius College, 1076 West Twelfth St. This is 
the Arts Department of the University. 

II. Loyola Law School (formerly the Lincoln College of 
Law), Ashland Block, Clark and Randolph Sts. Classes 
are held in the evening. 

III. Loyola School of Philosophy and Social Science, 601 
Ashland Block. Classes are held in the evening. The 
subjects taught are formal and material logic, cosmology, 
psychology, natural theology, ethics, and social science 
selected according to the needs of the day. The course is 
open to all young men qualified to profit by the lectures. 

IV. Bennett Medical College, Ada and Fulton Sts. 

V. Central States College of Pharmacy, 1360 Fulton St. 

VI. Loyola Institute of Engineering, Ev'anston and Devon 
Aves. Courses in civil, electrical, chemical, and mechanical 
engineering. 

Vn. Preparatory Schools: 

1. St. Ignatius Academy, 1076 West Twelfth St. Four 
years' course of prescribed classical studies. Special classes 
are conducted in the evening, 

2. St. Ignatius Commercial High School. Three years' 
course in business training. 

3. Loyola Academy, Evanston and Devon Aves. Four 
years' prescribed high-school courses. 

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LIBRARIES 

The main Library of Loyola University is situated in St. 
Ignatius College, 1076 West Twelfth St. A permanent 
library building is under construction on the Rogers Park 
grounds. There are branches in the other departments. 

The Library of St. Ignatius College has two main sections: 

1. A depository of 5,000 volumes from the U.S. govern- 
ment, and open to the use of the public from 9 a.m. till 4 p.m. 

2. The private library of the institution, consisting of 
47,000 volumes. It is meant primarily for the use of the 
faculty and the students, but is also open to the use of respon- 
sible persons, on apphcation to the librarian. This restriction 
has been made necessary, because neither the Library nor the 
College is publicly or privately endowed, and has no fixed 
income; nor has the Library any fees, but is wholly dependent 
on the funds assigned by the institution. 

The Library has been of slow and careful growth, and its 
contents chosen strictly with reference to the special needs 
of the institution as a high school and college of classical 
and general culture. It has about 2,300 volumes of science 
and mathematics, 8,000 of English literature, 4,000 of the 
Greek and Latin classics, 2,500 of biography, 5,100 of history, 
1,200 of philosophy and sociology, 10,000 of Scripture science 
and theology. The Library is unusually rich in its tomes 
and early editions; and it possesses some valuable sets, 
notably Migne's Greek and Latin Patrology, Mansi's Councils, 
the Jesuit Relations, Graevius' and Gronovius' Greek and 
Roman Antiquities, a complete set of the Acta Bollandiana. 

There are two branch libraries in the institution, besides 
the branches in the other departments of Loyola University. 

THE MUSEUM 

The museum is situated on the upper floor of St. Ignatius 
College, 1076 West Twelfth St. 

It is open to the public on application to the Curator, 
on Thursdays and Saturdays from i to 4 p.m. 

In the animal section, the collection of birds is noteworthy. 
A representative mineralogical collection is one of the features 
of the museum. 

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THE CHICAGO SCHOOL OF CIVICS AND 
PHILANTHROPY 

31 West Lake St. 

President: Graham Taylor 
Secretary: Edward L. Burchard 

This school, estabhshed eight years ago, has become a 
center in the new profession of social work, and for the develop- 
ment of a more general and critical interest in social condi- 
tions. 

It has a corps of staflf lecturers as well as many expert 
special lecturers from the leading public and private institu- 
tions of philanthropy and social refojrm. Special lecturers 
in this fisld come at regular intervals |to Chicago from other 
cities. 

Students have at their disposal the social and philan- 
thropic organizations in Chicago for practice work and for 
observational study. These include social settlements, 
charities, playgrounds, factories, probation courts, prisons, 
asylums, and churches. 

A department of social investigation in connection with 
the school is supported by the Russell Sage Foundation. 
Under the personal direction of specialists the students in 
this department make detailed inquiries into social conditions 
in Chicago. The statistical results thus achieved are pub- 
lished by the Foundation. 

A library of 600 volumes on social topics is accessible to 
the students and others desiring to gather information. 

A social museum of maps, charts, slides, etc., is being 
developed at the school to illustrate to the student by graphic 
and comparative methods what has been done both at home 
and abroad in the solution of social problems. This material 
is sent out also in the form of exhibits to universities in the 
Middle West, and to several cities. 

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OTHER SCHOOLS 

Jewish Training School, 12th Place and Clinton St. 
Superintendent: Joseph L. Bache. 

Object. — Non-sectarian education of worthy poor. 

Schedule. — Day school: for elementary pupils, 9 a.m. to 4 
P.M. Night school: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. for pupils over sixteen 
years of age employed during the day. Pubhc stereopticon 
lectures: Thursdays 2:30 p.m. from October to May. 

Library. — Use free on application to superintendent; 
1,700 volumes, miscellaneous, in German and Hebrew. 

Entertainments. — Free on application to superintendent. 

Chicago Hebrew Institute, 1258 Taylor St. Superin- 
tendent: Dr. J. Pedott. 

Classes. — Evening and day classes; evening classes in 
English, for the Hebrew immigrant; an evening commer- 
cial school; and an evening trade school. 

Library. — The Library consists of a representative col- 
lection of Hebrew books and of a branch reading-room 
and delivery station of the Chicago Public Library. 

Lectures. — Free public lectures are to be held on popular 
topics every Wednesday evening during the coming winter. 
On Friday evenings there are scheduled lectures on social 
hygiene and religious topics. 

School of Domestic Arts and Science, Burton 
Block, 177 N. State St. President: Mrs. Lynden Evans^ 
Directors: Misses Henrietta Connor and Elizabeth Mace. 

The school was establisiied when co-educational work was 
abandoned at Armour Institute, and was equipped by Mrs. 
P. D. Armour. It is maintained in part from dues, but 
largely from gifts and endowment funds. 

Classes are held in cooking, home nursing, hygiene, house- 
hold economics, sewing, dress-making and millinery. It 
maintains regular autumn, winter, and spring courses, and 
in addition two short summer courses. 

Laboratories, a museum of food and textile products, and a 
model kitchen are valuable parts of its equipment. 

Extension work has been carried on by lectures, and short 
courses were given during the past year in 23 women's clubs, 
hospitals, and settlements. 

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LAW SCHOOLS 

Chicago Kent College of Law, 26 Van Buren St. 
Supported by tuition fees; night school; has a library of 2,500 
volumes open to students and lawyers. 

Chicago Law School, 103-9 Randolph St. Offers three 
years' law course, night and day classes; courses for court 
reporters, and has in connection "The Chicago Seminar 
of Sciences." 

Illinois College of Law, 12-14 E. Erie St. Pre-legal 
and legal work; night and day classes. Free public lectures 
held Fridays 8:15 p.m. Library consists of 1,500 volumes 
open to students and lawyers. 

John Marshall Law School, 35 N. Dearborn St. 
Occasional public lectures on political and social sciences 
during the fall and winter. Library of 3,000 volumes open to 
lawyers and law students. 

Lincoln College of Law. — See Loyola University. 

Northwestern Law School. — See Northwestern Uni- 
versity. 

University of Chicago Law School. — See The Univer- 
sity of Chicago. 

MEDICAL SCHOOLS 

Bennett Medical College. — See Loyola University. 

Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery, 704 S. 
Lincoln St. (Valparaiso University), contains the Byron 
Robinson Medical Library. 

College of Physicians and Surgeons (University of 
Illinois), Congress and Honore Sts. Contains Quine Library, 
open to anyone interested in medical sciences. Hours 9 a.m. 
to 5 P.M., except Sundays and hohdays. 

Hahnemann Medical College, 2811 Cottage Grove Ave. 
Homeopathic. Use of library limited to students. 

Northwestern University Medical School. — See 
Northwestern University. 

Rush Medical College, W. Harrison St., between Her- 
mitage Ave. and Wood St. The college is affiliated with the 
University of Chicago; the last two years' work only are 
given at Rush, and the University gives courses which cover 
the first two years of medical work. The library occupies the 
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first floor of the Clinical Building, and contains about 16,000 
volumes and files of all the leading medical journals. 

THEOLOGICAL SCHOOLS 

Chicago Theological Seminary, 20 North Ashland 
Boulevard. Established by the Congregational church, and 
consists (i) of a Seminary, (2) a German, a Danish-Nor- 
wegian, and a Swedish Institute, (3) a school of church music, 
and (4) of a Seminary extension. The Seminary has a library 
of about 30,000 volumes, known as the Hammond Library, 
especially on Old Testament, Semitics, and Egyptology. 

Garrett Biblical Institute, Northwestern University 
Campus, Evanston, 111. A theological school of the Metho- 
dist Episcopal church, affiliated with Northwestern Uni- 
versity. The Institute library is open 6 hours every week 
day. The library contains over 15,000 volumes, including 
the notable Deering- Jackson Collection of Methodistica. 

McCoRMicK Theological Seminary, 2330 N. Halsted 
St. A seminary of the Presbyterian church. The Virginia 
Library consists of over 33,000 books, housed in a new and 
attractive building. It is accessible to anyone interested 
in theological studies. 

Moody Bible Institute, 80 Institute Place. An inter- 
denominational Christian institute. Has day and evening 
classes, and supplies men for evangelistic services, throughout 
the city. In addition to the Bible course, a music course 
is given. Library, 3,000 volumes. 

St. Viator's, 3208 N. 40th Ave. Prepares novitiates 
for Institute of the Clerics of St. Viator. Library, 2,000 
volumes, may be consulted on presentation of proper cre- 
dentials. 

Theological Seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran 
Church, Maywood, 111. Library, 10,000 volumes, mainly 
theological. 

The University of Chicago Divinity School, Haskell 
Museum, The University of Chicago. 

Western Theological Seminary, 1113 Washington 
Blvd. Library, 6,000 volumes, open for reference during 
the entire day and evening. 

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PUBLIC PARKS 

SOUTH PARK COMMISSION 

Offices: 57th St. and Cottage Grove Ave. 

President: John Barton Payne 
Superintendent: J. Frank Foster 
Playground Director: Edward B. DeGroot 

The South Park Commission has control of the parks and 
boulevards in the South Park District, 92.6 sq, miles in 
extent, and including the South Town of Chicago, Hyde 
Park,. South Chicago, Grand Crossing, Englewood, and the 
Stock Yards, with a total population of over two-thirds of a 
million. In this district twenty-three parks have been laid 
out, with a total area of over 2,000 acres, ranging from the 
small Hardin Square of 5 acres to Jackson Park, which 
covers almost a square mile. The moife important of these 
parks are connected by boulevards, in all 28I miles in length. 

The landscape gardener in forty years of unremitting toil 
has here developed magnificent groves, lawns, and gardens. 
The trees, shrubbery, and flowers represent a careful selection 
of the most pleasing and adaptable varieties. Birds in great 
numbers and considerable variety make their home in the 
larger parks and offer excellent opportunities for observation. 
The student of Nature finds reproduced here within the 
city practically all the conditions of wild life. 

Manifold means of outdoor exercise are ofifered, from the 
golf-courses in Jackson Park to baseball and tennis, boating in 
summer, and skating in winter. In each of ten parks indoor 
gymnasiums and outdoor playgrounds with wading pools have 
been provided. Instruction is given by trained men and 
women in gymnastics, sports, and dancing. A considerable 
number of athletic contests and play-festivals are staged, 
indoors and out, which often attract a large attendance. 

The direction of social and educational work forms an 
important feature of the work of the Commission. In the ten 
small parks listed below assembly halls and clubrooms are 

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available for the use of the neighborhood. The total attend- 
ance in the assembly halls is about 250,000 annually and in 
the clubrooms over 40,000. There is an increasing use of the 
halls for dramatics, musicals, lectures, debates, and social 
gatherings, English classes for foreigners have been organ- 
ized to some extent. Lectures have been given by the 
medical associations in an effort to spread knowledge of better 
methods of sanitation and personal hygiene. Many public 
schools have held exercises in various assembly halls. Neigh- 




DAVIS SQUARE PARK HOUSE AND PLAYGROUND 
In the Stock-Yards District 



borhood bands and orchestras have in many cases provided 
home-talent concerts. The service of the assembly halls and 
clubrooms is free, but may not be used for political or religious 
propaganda. The neighborhoods of these various park- 
halls have been quick to realize their possibilities for enter- 
tainment and instruction, and by the active co-operation 
of the directors the various park-halls are being used in 
some cases practically to the extent of their possibilities. 
In all these halls reading-rooms are maintained, five of them 
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being branches of the Public Library. The total attendance 
at the reading-rooms and libraries was 637,683 during the 
past year. 

In all of the squares and principal parks outdoor concerts 
are given by the best bands in the city, one each week from 
the middle of July to the end of August. 

PARK ENUMERATION AND SPECIAL FEATURES 

Jackson Park. — 543 acres, extending one and three-eighths 
miles along Lake Michigan. 



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NEIGHBORHOOD FESTIVAL— CORNELL SQUARE 

Washington Park. — 371 acres. The park has exceptional 
floral displays and a large conservatory at all times open to 
the public. The conservatory has a glass area of 18,000 sq. 
ft. and is always attractive by reason of a varied floral exhibit. 

Grant Park. — 205 acres, still in process of improvement. 
South of the Art Institute is the Logan Monument by St. 
Gaudens. 

Marquette Park. — 323 acres; one-fourth improved. 

McKinley Park. — 75 acres; outdoor gymnasium and 
swimming-pool. 

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Calumet Park. — 176 acres; has public bathing beach. 
Gage Park. — 20 acres. 

The following parks are known as play parks and contain 
gymnasium and field-houses: 

Mark White Square 29th and Halsted Sts. 

Armour 33d St. and 5th Ave. 

Cornell 50th and Wood Sts. 

Russell 83d St. and Illinois Ave. 

Sherman 5 2d St. and Garfield Blvd. 

Ogden Park 64th St. and Center Ave. 

Hamilton Park. .72d to 74th Sts. between C.R.I.& 
P. R.R. and W. Ind. R.R. tracks. 

Bessemer Park 89th St. and S. Chicago Ave. 

Palmer Park iiith St. and South Park Ave. 

Davis Square 49th St. and Marshfield Ave. 

Hardin Square 25th St. and Wentworth Ave. 

Square No. 4 45th St. and Princeton Ave,. 

Unimproved: Parks No. 15, 16, and 17. 

\A/^EST CHICAGO PARK COMMISSION 

President: William Kolacek 
Secretary: George A. Mugler 
Superintendent: A. C. Schrader 

The West Chicago Park Commissioners have jurisdiction 
over and control 13 parks with an area of 629. 28 acres and 
24. 75 miles of boulevards within the Town of West Chicago, 
the total area of parks and boulevards being 1,035.43 acres. 
The total population of the West Park District is about 
872,000, within an area of about 35.5 square miles. 

The Conservatory in Garfield Park is one of the largest 
in this country, having a floor space of 68,000 sq. ft. and 
cubical contents of 1,927,000 cu. ft., and consists of a large 
palm house, fern house, conifer house, show house, stove 
house and economic house, showing interesting economic 
plants. The stove house contains a lot of bright-colored 
tropical plants, such as Pandanus, Anthuriums, Crotons, 
Dracamas, Caladiums, etc. The fern house is attractive with 
its large tree ferns, naturalistic rockery, and lawn spaces 
formed by means of lycopodium. In the show house can 
be found rich collections of orchids, and various plants in 
season, such as bulbous plants, azaleas, rhododendron, etc., 
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for Easter: fuchsias, begonias, etc., in summer: in fall, 
chrysanthemums; and in midwinter, camellias, poinsettias, etc. 

The conservatory is open from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. daily, 
and at special periods, such as Easter and midwinter, the 
conservatory is open until 10 p.m. daily. 

The three playground parks in operation are known as 
Small Park No. i, No. 2, and No. 3. In each park a field- 
house is placed of ample dimensions to house the various 




CONSERVATORY— GARFIELD PARK 



activities. In these field-houses are located the indoor 
gymnasiums for both men and women, library and reading- 
room, indoor shower baths, kind6rgarten room, assembly hall, 
and clubrooms. Outside of the field-houses are found the 
large swimming-pools, outdoor gymnasiums, the play-fields, 
wading-pools for children, and so far as space will permit, 
small garden plats are assigned to children to teach 
gardening. 

The gymnasiums, both indoor and outdoor, are under 
supervision of trained instructors, and the play-fields, chil- 

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dren's playgrounds, and swimming-pools are under the super- 
vision of competent attendants. 

The libraries and reading-rooms are operated as branches 
of the Public Library of the City of Chicago. 

LINCOLN PARK COMMISSION 

President: Francis T. Simmons 
Superintendent: A. S. Lewis 

The Lincoln Park Commission has under its jurisdiction 
that part of the city lying north and east of the North Branch 
of the Chicago River. The principal park in this district is 
Lincoln Park, with conservatory and zo5logical garden. 
About i,50D varieties of animals are kept in the zoo, a notable 
feature of which is the large aviary. The conservatory is 
noteworthy for its collection of orchids and floral displays 
in season. 

The Commission maintains the following small parks 
commonly equipped with field-houses and playgrounds: 

Lake Shore Playground. — Foot of Chicago Ave. 

Seward Park. — Sedgwick, Elm, Orleans, and Hill Sts. 
The fiald house contains an assembly hall, library, and club- 
room. 

A series of free illustrated lectures are scheduled for 
Tuesday evenings, commencing in January. 

Stanton Park. — Vedder, Vine, and Rees Sts. 

Hamlin Park. — Hoyne, WeUington, Robey Sts. and 
Barrington Ave. Has assembly hall with three clubrooms, 
stage, roof garden, and branch library. 

Welles Park. — Montrose and Western Aves. 

At all these parks recreation work is carried on as outlined 
for the South Park Commission. 



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SOCIAL SETTLEMENTS 

HULL HOUSE 

335 South Halsted St. 
Head Resident: Jane Addams 

Illustrated public lectures either in courses or singly are 
held every Sunday evening on travel and popular sciences, 
and public concerts are given every Sunday afternoon. 
Other lectures are given at the House each winter under the 
auspices of Hull House clubs, most regularly those every 
Wednesday afternoon for the Woman's Club. 

Two groups of evening classes are divided into advanced 
and beginners; in the latter, English and composition are 
taught to immigrants, three or four classes each evening, the 
pupils being graded as carefully as possible. The advanced 
classes, fewer in number, teach civics, history, literature, etc. 

There are 175 pupils in the evening classes of the domestic 
science department, cooking, miUinery, and dress-making. 
The latter are held in the same rooms with the Hull House 
Labor Museum, where an attempt is made to connect the 
classes with the evolution of the textiles through the primi- 
tive methods of spinning and weaving still to be found in 
the Hull House neighborhood. 

Among the classes for young men are those in machine 
shops and those in the electrical club with lectures, demon- 
strations and a_ laboratory of its own. Some young men are 
also found in the Boys' Club classes. These latter consist 
of forging, brass-molding, tin-smithing, carpentry, and 
cabinet-making, telegraphy, commercial photography, 
cobbling, hammock-weaving, printing, an office-boys' class 
in typewriting, and use of a telephone switchboard. 

One of the older educational activities of the House is 
the Hull House Music School which is designed to give a 
thorough musical instruction to a limited number of children. 
Each child receives two lessons each week in singing and two 

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lessons either on the piano or violin. The School occupies a 
building of its own and gives occasional recitals which are 
largely attended. 

The Hull House Studio has been maintarned for many 
years. Instruction is given in drawing, painting, designing, 
lithography, etc. 

The little Hull House Theater seats 250. Plays are con- 
stantly given therein by the various Dramatic Associations 
of Hull House. 

Several libraries and reading-rooms are connected with the 
House, one in the Boys' Club open every day from 3 p.m. 
to 6 P.M. and from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m., one belonging to the 
Hull House Woman's Club, and the Hull House general 
reading-room, open every evening. 

THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN CENTRE 

Oakwood Blvd. and Langley Ave. 

Head Resident: Jenkin Lloyd Jones 

The institution is a six-story and basement building, 
given to the institutional work of a social center with All 
Souls Church as its core and dynamic power. 

The basement is given over to children's amusement, 
manual training in wood and iron, forges, dark rooms for 
photographic purposes, etc. 

The main floor is largely occupied by a branch of the Chi- 
cago Public Library, with approximately 5,000 circulating 
volumes, and adults' and children's reading-rooms. 

The second and third stories are occupied by the Audi- 
torium, which with the galleries has a seating capacity of 
1,000, an organ, rest-room, picture-room and other con- 
veniences, and a commodious stage. 

On the fourth floor is the Emerson Hall, with a seating 
capacity of 250, the Browning room. Civics room, Bible-room, 
Banquet-room and kitchen for social occasions. 

The sixth floor is divided between the Gymnasium, with 
the necessary baths, lockers, etc., for men and women, and 
domestic science, cooking, sewing, weaving, kindergarten, etc. 

A working force of some 22 give their whole time to the 
institution, which is open seven days in the week and all 
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the waking hours of each day. It aims to be a center toward 
which all legitimate needs of the neighborhood may tend 
and from which all available help may radiate. Its imme- 
diate territory reaches from squalor and poverty to elegance 
and riches, and the institution seeks to ameliorate the severi- 
ties and weaknesses all along the line by an exchange of 
commodities and courtesies. 

In a certain "round-up" of its kindergarten constituency 
thirteen different nationahties were represented. Its activi- 
ties enhst the co-operation of a wide range, religiously, 
socially, and economically. 

It serves as a " Center" for many neighborhood activities, 
and its rooms are regularly utilized by various social and 
civic clubs. 

Its material plant has cost about $200,000; it has an 
endowment fund of $100,000 and an annual budget of about 
$24,000. Its various activities show a weekly attendance 
of between 3,000 and 4,000 individuals. 



OTHER SETTLEMENTS 

Association House, 2138 W. North Ave. Head Resi- 
dent: Mary L. Atkins. 

Religious instruction has been considerably emphasized 
in the work of this settlement. 

Library. — 1,600 volumes, and a free delivery station of 
the Public Library. 

Schedule. — (i) Direction of children's clubs for dramatic, 
literary, and handicraft training; enrolment 800. (2) A 
department of domestic economy, with classes in dress- 
making, millinery, embroidery, and cooking; over 500 in 
attendance. (3) Sewing classes for small children. (4) 
During winter on Saturday afternoons a story hour is held 
for the children. 

Henry Booth House, 701 W. 14th Place. Head Resi- 
dent: T. W. Allinson. 

Library. — 2,400 volumes, over half being of literature 
/or children in the lower grades, and the remainder of 
carefully chosen novels, poetry, history, reference, and 

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schoolbooks. Once a week the library is open for circulation, 
A story hour for children is held weekly. 

Schedule. — (i) Occasional lectures from universities and 
elsewhere, (2) Night classes in English, intended for 
foreigners of adult age, who would not, or for some reason 
could not, go to the courses offered at the public night classes. 

Eli Bates House, 621 Elm St. The settlement is in the 
heart of the North Side Italian colony. 

Library. — Children's circulating library; story and game 
hours. 

Schedule. — Domestic Science school for women and girls. 
Classes in basketry, lace-making, embroidery, etc. Night 
classes in English. Italian club meets Monday nights; 
addresses by Italian-Americans, or Italian concerts. 

Chicago Commons, Grand Ave. and North Morgan St. 
Warden: Professor Graham Taylor. 

Class hours: Every day from 3 to 5 p.m. and from 7 to 

10 P.M. 

The activities of the Commons are both social and educa- 
tional, and much is done in co-operation with neighborhood 
organizations, and with welfare movements, some of which 
are city wide and some nation wide in their scope. The 
activities of the settlement are built about the needs of the 
neighborhood and attract regularly over 3,000 people a week 
during the winter. Each summer about 2,500 people get 
some sort of an outing through the activity of the Commons, 
ranging from day picnics to camp outings of several weeks. 

Christopher House, 1618 Fullerton Ave. Head Resi- 
dent: James J. Coale. 

Library. — 1,500 volumes. 

Schedule. — Night school for foreigners, and an English class 
for Servian girls. Classes in freehand, mechanical, and 
architectural drawing, and in manual training. Cooking 
classes for girls, young women, and women. Weekly stereop- 
ticon lectures. Gymnasium classes, clubs of various kinds, 
and musical work. 

Frederick Douglass Center, 3032 Wabash Ave. Head 
Resident: Mrs. C. P. Woolley. 

A social center organized for the benefit of the colored 

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people. Two domestic science classes provide instruction in 
cooking and sewing. Several clubs carry on educational 
work, particularly the Women's Club. 

Emerson House, 1800 Emerson Ave. Head Resident: 
Mrs. Rhoda A. Leach. 

Library and Reading-Room open afternoons and evenings; 
dehvery station of Chicago Public Library. 

A number of clubs are organized for adults and children, 
particularly a Young Housekeeper's Club and a Mother's 
Economy Club. 

Class instruction in cooking, sewing, manual training, and 
music. 

Gad's Hill Center, 20th and Robey Sts. Resident: 
Mrs. Leila Martin. 

Library: Delivery station of Public Library and a loan 
library of the Illinois Extension Library Committee. A weekly 
story hour is established, with an average attendance of 50. 

Classes. — Two classes in English^ manual training, and 
domestic science. 

Elizabeth Marcy Home, 134 Newberry Ave. Superin- 
tendent: Miss Bertha Brown. 

Library. — 1,500 volumes. Tuesdays and Fridays, 3:00- 

5:00 P.M. 

Classes. — English night school for Jewish immigrants; 
enrolment 130. 

Maxwell Settlement, 12 14 S. Clinton St. Secretary: 
Bennett Epstein. 

Organized particularly for social work among Jews. 

Reading-Room. — Open at all times; newspapers and books 
in Yiddish and English. 

Classes. — Organized on demand in Enghsh, stenography, 
domestic science, etc. A nominal fee is charged. 

Neighborhood House, 6710 May St. Resident: Miss G. 
Nicholes. 

Classes for adults in dress-making, millinery, cooking, elo- 
cution, dancing, and rhetoric. Individual lessons are given 
in piano and violin. 

Olivet Institute, Vedder and Penn Sts. Superin- 
tendent: N. B. Barr. 

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An institutional church maintaining manual-training and 
domestic-science classes, also a medical dispensary and chil- 
dren's camp at Lake Geneva. 

South Deering Neighborhood Center, 1044 i Hoxie 
Ave. Resident: Miss Sarah Kenney. 

Directs clubs for young men and boys. Teaches sewing, 
cooking, English to immigrants, manual training, and music. 

Library. — A delivery station of the Public Library and a 
free reading-room. 

South End Center, 3212 91st St. Resident: Miss Grace 
Darling. 

Classes. — Sewing, manual training, English to supplement 
work of public night schools. 

Library. — 1,000 volumes, and a deposit from the Pubhc 
Library. 

University of Chicago Settlement, 4630 Gross Ave. 
Resident: Miss Mary E. McDowell. Located in the foreign 
center of the stock-yards district. 

Classes. — Cooking and manual-training classes. 

A school of citizenship prepares men for registration 
teaches English, and the duties of citizenship. Clubs for 
boys and girls, debating societies, a mother's club. Instruc- 
tion in hygiene by a resident nurse to neighborhood families. 



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THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSO- 
CIATION OF CHICAGO 

Class work. — Evening class instruction for men and older 
boys is given at most of the city departments, for which 
tuition fees are charged, ranging from $i .00 to $10.00 a sub- 
ject course for a term of three months. About one hundred 
different subjects are offered, grouped under the following 
heads: Elementary, Business, Special Vocational, Drawing, 
Engineering and College Preparatory. Special class in- 
struction for members of railroad departments is also 
provided. Day schools for young men and boys are main- 
tained in several of the city departments, offering grammar- 
school and high-school, commercial and technical courses, and 
special courses for apprentices in the building trades. 

Clubs. — Voluntary organizations among the members are 
conducted for the purpose of promoting debating, scientific 
research, and interest in subjects supplemental to classwork. 

Lectures and talks. — Series of educational lectures and 
practical talks are given at frequent intervals throughout the 
year at all the city and railroad departments, which are open 
to both members and the public. Announcements of these 
lectures and talks are made through the daily papers. 

Reading-rooms. — All the city and railroad departments 
maintain reading-rooms furnished with current periodicals 
and newspapers. The use of this privilege is restricted to 
members and visitors holding passes. Several departments 
are equipped with small reference libraries for the use of class 
students and other members. 

English instruction for foreigners. — The Chicago Young 
Men's Christian Association co-operates with other agencies 
in the organizing and conduct of special classes in English 
for foreign-speaking boys and men. The instruction is free 
or given at a nominal charge. 

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General Offices. — 1201, 19 South La Salle St. 
General Departments. — • 

Central — 19 South La Salic St. 
Division Street — 16 21 Division St. 
West Side — 15 13 West Monroe St. 
Wilson Avenue — 1725 Wilson Ave. 
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HYDE PARK BRANCH— Y. M. C. A. 

Hyde Park — 1400 East 53d St. 

North Side Boys' Club — 1336 Fullerton Ave. 

Railroad Departments. — 

Pennsylvania Lines (ssth St.) — ^^2 Garfield Blvd. 

Pennsylvania Lines (59th St.) — 59th & Leavitt Sts. 

Dearborn Station — 817 Plymouth PI. 

Chicago & North Western — 367 North 41st Ave. 

Grand Trunk— 3508 West 51st St. 

Chicago & Eastern Illinois — South Holland, 111. 



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MUSICAL ORGANIZATIONS 

Apollo Musical Club, 40 Randolph St. 

Chicago Musical College, 624 Michigan Blvd. — The 
school occupies a new seven-story building, equipped with 
studios, a concert auditorium, Ziegfeld Hall, rehearsal halls, 
excellent libraries, reception rooms, and executive offices. 
Instruction is given in every branch of music and a School 
of Acting, Opera, and Expression is attached to the institu- 
tion. Saturday morning free public concerts are given by 
members of the faculty and students. The school also has 
occasional public lectures by men of note. 

Germania Maennerchor, 25 Germania Place. — This 
organization is the most important of a great number of 
German musical clubs in the city. The library of the society 
is open to the public and contains 1,379 books and 562 pamph- 
lets. These are all German-American, and are representa- 
tive of German-American Literature from Sour down to 
date. Occasional lectures on art, music, and literature are 
given by the club. 

Irish Choral Society, 515, 243 Wabash Ave. 

The Theodore Thomas Orchestral Association. 
President: Bryan Lathrop; Vice-President: Daniel H. 
Burnham; Second Vice-President: C. Norman Fay; Secre- 
tary: Philo a. Otis; Treasurer and Manager: Frederick 
J. Wessels; Assistant Manager: Henry E. Voegeli. 

The Association was founded in 189 1 for the purpose of 
giving a series of concerts in the City of Chicago, in the belief 
that no semi-public institution can contribute more to the 
pleasure of the intelligent and to the elevation of the masses 
than an organization of the character of the Theodore Thomas 
Orchestra. 

The series now embraces 56 performances, one every Fri- 
day afternoon and one every Saturday evening for 28 weeks, 
beginning about the middle of October. In addition a series 

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of 6 matinees is given at the University of Chicago. Mem- 
bership of the Orchestra is 87. 

Orchestra Hall, the Home of the Thomas Orchestra, was 
built by popular subscription in 1903-4 as the Orchestra's 
endowment. There were some 8,500 subscribers to the fund, 
and against the property neither stocks nor bonds have been 
issued, the organization being quasi-public in character. 
The rentals from the Hall and the sale of concert tickets have 
placed the Orchestra on a self-supporting basis. 

From 189 1 to 1905 Theodore Thomas was conductor of 
the Orchestra, and since his death the Orchestra has been 
under the leadership of Frederick Stock. After the death 
of Mr. Thomas his widow presented to the Association the 
Theodore Thomas Musical Library, with the exception of a 
few rare scores which have been placed in the Newberry 
Library. 

LECTURE ASSOCIATIONS, CLUBS, ETC. 

The Daily News Lectures. — For ten years The Daily 
News has been giving free lectures in public-school halls in all 
parts of Chicago, but particularly in districts remote from 
down-town attractions. It rents these halls from the Board 
of Education and gives free lectures on nearly all Friday 
nights from early in October until late in May. In recent 
years it has given more than 300 lectures during each school 
year. These lectures are divided into fall, winter, and spring 
courses. 

A considerable number of lecturers co-operate in this 
work, many year after year. Some of the lecturers travel 
widely in search of lecture material. They are addressed 
primarily to adults, and in the main children must be accom- 
panied by their parents. It is the special effort of The Daily 
News to make its lectures of the school extension sort, awaken- 
ing new trains of thought in the minds of busy men and 
women and helping adult persons of foreign birth who are 
learning the language and customs of this country. The sub- 
jects treated are of many kinds, including new discoveries in 
science, topics from American history, great historical events 

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in other lands, great men and women of this and other coun- 
tries, and also readings from the poets, particularly Shake- 
speare. These topics are all well illustrated with stereopticon 
pictures. 

The free lectures are given with the co-operation of the 
school principals where the courses are held. Tickets for the 
lectures are distributed by the principals, who also have 
charge of the audiences at the lectures. In the future, as in 
the past, courses of free lectures will be held in suitable school 
halls wherever the school principals desire the lectures and 
are willing to co-operate with The Daily News in making 
them successful by distributing tickets directly to those who 
desire them and in other ways. It is the intention of The 
Daily News to increase from year to year the number of free 
lectures. Announcements of the lectures are made from time 
to time in the columns of The Daily News. 

The Chicago Medical Society. — Saturday evening 
course of free lectures in Fullerton Hall, November to May, 
on subjects dealing with sanitation, hygiene, and health. 
Attendance varies from loo to 500. 

The Chicago Geographic Society. — Lectures in Fuller- 
ton Hall, Art Institute, once a month, from October to May. 
Attendance is limited to members and their guests. The 
lectures are of a geographic character, and are mostly on 
travel. 

The Chicago Sunday Evening Club. — Orchestra Hall. 
President: Clifford W. Barnes; Secretary: Philip L. James. 

The Sunday Evening Club provides the only large free 
meetings of a religious character in the business center of 
Chicago on Sunday nights. The seats are free, the services 
are strictly non-sectarian, and everyone is welcome. 

Eighty thousand was the total in round numbers for last 
season, making an average of 2,300 each evening. The Club 
was organized and is conducted by well-known Chicago busi- 
ness men, some of whom take part in every service. 

Men of national and international reputation, drawn from 
every walk in life, give talks on individual and civic better- 
ment. Governors, senators, judges, educators, authors, 
presidents of great corporations, in addition to the most 

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distinguished clergymen of all denominations, are included 
among the speakers. The music is furnished by a trained 
chorus of fifty voices and a quartet of noted soloists. 

Alliance Fran^aise, — Fine Arts Bldg., 410 S. Michigan 
Ave. President: William Burry; Secretary: Isabel Lynn. 

The Alliance Frangaise is an international association for 
the propagation of the French language and the establishment 
of closer relation between France and other countries. Free 
public lectures and readings are held alternately every 
Saturday from 12 to i p.m. at Fullerton Hall, Art Institute. 
The program is entirely in French and all those interested in 
the French language are invited to attend. 

The French Library contains 7,000 volumes, including 
classical and modern literature, works of art, science, phi- 
losophy and history. It is open every day except Sundays 
and holidays, from 9 to i and from 2 to 5 o'clock. 

In addition to the privilege of drawing books, the members 
have the use of the reading-room, where current revues are 
on file and where books of French plays and operas being 
given in Chicago may be found. 

New volumes and the latest publications from Paris are 
continually being received. 

During the winter season a series of causeries on French 
books and authors are held at the library rooms on Saturday 
afternoons. 

Germanistic Society of Chicago. — President: Harry 
Pratt Judson; Corresponding Secretary: Starr W. Cutting. 

This society aims to promote the knowledge and study of 
German civilization. Lectures are held every alternate Mon- 
day evening from November to May in Fullerton Hall, Art 
Institute. Prominent lecturers, European and American, are 
secured for this series. The lectures are alternately German 
and English and are limited in their scope only by their rele- 
vance to matters German. Admission is by ticket. 

ScHWABENVEREiN, North Side Turner Hall, 257 N. Clark 
St. Secretary: Julius Schmidt. 

A militant organization of South German culture which 
gives occasional public lectures. 



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THE CITY CLUB OF CHICAGO 

218 South Clark St. 
After October i, at 315 Plymouth Court 

President: Henry B. Favill 
Secretary: Spencer L. Adams 
Civic Secretary: George E. Hooker 

The Library of the City Club of Chicago is a working 
collection of books and pamphlets on civic and social subjects. 
Its primary purpose is to furnish reference material for the 
use of the committees of the City Club, which are interested 
in the investigation and improvement of local municipal 
conditions, 

-The Library at present consists of between 2,500 and 2,600 
volumes and 95 boxes of pamphlet material, magazine clip- 
pings, typewritten reports, and other literature of the ephem- 
eral sort. Much of this material, of course, is to be found 
in the larger libraries of the city, but some of it is not avail- 
able elsewhere. Some of the subjects dealt with are Municipal 
Art, City Charters, Public Education, Public Utilities (in- 
cluding Gas, Electricity, Telephones, and Street Railways), 
Harbors, Wharves and Waterways, Public Health, Housing 
Conditions, Labor Conditions, Parks and Playgrounds, 
Political Organizations, Publicity and Statistics, Municipal 
Finance, Streets and Alleys, and Traffic and Transportation. 
The Library has in its files the charters of a large number of 
commission-governed cities. 

Since the Library has been established primarily for the 
members and the committees of the City Club, it has not been 
thrown open to the general public, but persons engaged in 
serious research, if properly introduced, have rarely been de- 
nied its privileges. 

As a part of its civic work, the Club also maintains a Free 
Lecture Bureau which will, upon request, furnish speakers on 
social and civic subjects to churches, societies, clubs, and 
other organizations in Chicago. 

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The Woman's City Club. — Room 225, Northwestern 
University Building, 31 W. Lake St., Chicago. President: 
Mrs. H. M. Wilmarth; Superintendent: Miss Anna E. 
Nicholes. 

The Woman's City Club was organized June 4, 19 10. 
The purpose of the Club, as stated in the by-laws, is: "To 
bring together women interested in promoting the welfare 
of the city; to co-ordinate and render more effective the 
scattered social and civic activities in which they are engaged; 
to extend a knowledge of public affairs; to aid in improving 
civic conditions, and to assist in arousing an increased sense 
of social responsibility for the safeguarding of the home, the 
maintenance of good government, and the ennobling of that 
larger home of all — the city." With a view to civic improve- 
ment the Club has been investigating housing conditions, 
bathing beaches, city waste, foods, and police-station and jail 
conditions. Other lines of work are projected. 



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INDEX 



Abraham Lincoln Centre, 66. 

Alliance Frangaise, 76. 

Armour Institute of Technol- 
ogy, 49- 

Art Institute, 29. 

Ashland Block Association, 
27. 

Association House, 67. 

Bennett Medical College, 57. 

Board of Education, 3. 

Chicago Academy of Sciences, 

37. 
Chicago Bar Association, 27. 
Chicago College of Medicine 

and Surgery, 57. 
Chicago Commons, 68. 
Chicago Geographic Society, 

75. 
Chicago Hebrew Institute, 56. 
Chicago Historical Societ}', 

24. 
Chicago Kent College of Law, 

57. 

Chicago Law Institute, 27. 

Chicago Law School, 57. 

Chicago Medical Society, 75. 

Chicago Musical College, 73. 

Chicago PubHc Library, 10. 

Chicago School of Civics and 
Philanthropy, 55. 

Chicago Theological Semi- 
nary, 58. 



Christopher House, 68, 

City Club, 77, 

College of Physicians and Sur- 
geons, 57. 

Columbus Memorial Medical 
Library, 28. 

Daily News Lectures, 74. 

Eli Bates House, 68. 

Elizabeth IMarcy Home, 69. 

Emerson House, 69. 

Evanston Historical Society, 
27. 

Evanston Public Library, 27. 

Field Museum, ^^. 

Frederick Douglass Center, 
68. 

Gad's Hill Center. 69. 

Garrett Biblical Institute, 58. 

German-American Historical 
Society of Illinois, 28. 

Germania Maennerchor, 73. 

Germanistic Society of Chi- 
cago, 76. 

Hahnemann Medical College, 

57. 
Henry Booth House, 67. 
Hull House, 65. 
Illinois College of Law, 57. 
Irish Choral Society, 73. 
Jewish Training School, 56. 
John Crerar Library, 16. 
John Marshall Law School, 57. 



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Lewis Institute, 51. 

Lincoln College of Law, 57. 

Lincoln Park Commission, 64. 

Loyal Legion of America, 28. 

Loyola University, 53. 

Maxwell Settlement, 69. 

McCormick Theological Sem- 
inary, 58. 

Moody Bible Institute, 58. 

Neighborhood House, 69. 

Newberry Library, 20. 

Northwestern University, 45. 

Oak Park Public Library, 27. 

Olivet Institute, 69. 

Public Schools, 5. 

Rush Medical College, 57. 

St. Viator's Normal Institute, 
58. 

School of Domestic Arts and 
Science, 56. 

Schwabenverein, 76. 

South Deering Neighborhood 
Center, 70. 



South End Center, 70. 

South Park Commission, 59. 

Sunday Evening Club, 75. 

Swedish Historical Society 
of America, 28. 

Teachers' College, 5. 

Theological Sem. of the Ev.- 
Luth. Church, 58. 

Thomas Orchestral Associa- 
tion, 73. 

University of Chicago, 40, 57, 
58. 

University of Chicago Set- 
tlement, 57, 58, 70, 

West Park Commission, 62. 

Western Society of Engineers, 
28. 

Western Theological Semi- 
nary, 58. 

Women's City Club, 78. 

Young Men's Christian Asso 
ciation, 71. 



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